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If you have installed the free Microsoft RSAT tools with the “ActiveDirectory” PowerShell module, here is a quick way to get a list of...

Did you ever need the first and last day in a given month? Here is a simple approach: # specify the date you want to examine # default is today...

As you have seen in previous tips, the Internet knows your IP address, and also where you are located. You can get the latitude and longitude of...

Would you like to know what your public IP address is that you are currently using while being connected to the Internet? It’s a one-liner:...

Beginning with Windows 8 and Server 2012, operating systems ship with extensive PowerShell modules to manage server and client. They provide cmdlets...

Requires PowerShell 5 or better This week we are looking at enumerations: what they are, and how you can benefit from them. Beginning in PowerShell...

This week we are looking at enumerations: what they are, and how you can benefit from them. In the previous tips, we looked at enumerations, and...

This week we are looking at enumerations: what they are, and how you can benefit from them. In the previous tips, we explored how enumerations work....

This week we are looking at enumerations: what they are, and how you can benefit from them. In the previous tip we explained how PowerShell converts...

This week we are looking at enumerations: what they are, and how you can benefit from them. When a cmdlet or method requires an enumeration value,...

When working across language boundaries, you might want to use a way to “normalize” date and time, for example for logging. Instead of...

PowerShell can access all public .NET classes, so it is (fairly) easy to create a message box: $result = [System.Windows.MessageBox]::Show('Do...

Ever wanted to find out how long a particular command or portion of your script took to complete? Here is a simple Stopwatch object that can help...

PowerShell 3 or better This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your PowerShell...

PowerShell 3+ This week we are looking at how you can change coloring both in the PowerShell console and PowerShell ISE so you can fine tune your...

We are about to enter “Color Week” with plenty of tips how you can choose better colors for the PowerShell ISE editor and the console....

Here is an easy way to find the ASCII code for any character you may have scraped from a website, or found in a script that you copied from the...

WMI can provide the raw data about hard drive size and free space. PowerShell then takes that information and provides user-friendly results like...

PowerShell 2+ Many older DCOM-based commands require a “Remote Administration Firewall Exception” to access remote systems. This...

PowerShell 3+ If you’d like to know which programs start automatically on your machine, WMI may help: PS C:\> Get-CimInstance -ClassName...

PowerShell 2+ When you read in CSV data and would like to rename the CSV headers, here is a simple approach: just read in the text line by line, and...

In the previous tip we illustrated how Convert-Umlaut was able to convert special characters in a string. This becomes even more useful if a...

PowerShell 2+ Sometimes it becomes necessary to replace special characters like German “Umlauts” in order to normalize user names or...

PowerShell 2+ Robocopy is a tool of choice to copy files, and that does not change with PowerShell. You can, however, use PowerShell to embed...