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PowerShell 3.0 and later If your script needs additional resources, like text lists of server names, or picture files, or anything else, then make...

PowerShell ISE In the PowerShell console, you can pipe commands to the old-fashioned “more.com”, or better yet, to Out-Host...

All versions To find out which users have a (local) user profile on your machine, and where this profile is located, try this snippet: $path =...

All versions In a previous tip you learned how a one-liner can read multiple registry keys. In part 2, check out this one-liner: $lookup =...

All versions PowerShell code can be extremely dense. Here is a one-liner that reads all associated file extensions from the Windows Registry:...

All Versions Sort-Object is your one-stop solution for sorting. If it’s primitive data, simply pipe it to Sort-Object. If it is object data,...

All versions Let’s assume you would like to open your favorite websites in a browser when you start your day. PowerShell can do this for you...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Sometimes it is important to know just how long a command takes. For example, to monitor web site response times, you could...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Objects can contain nested properties, and the data you are after may be “somewhere” inside an object. To...

All PowerShell Versions Some cmdlets (like Remove-ADGroupMember) automatically ask for confirmation. This can be a problem in scripts running...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Beginning in PowerShell 3.0 PowerShell no longer ships its help files. Instead, you need to download them via Update-Help,...

Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 come with a bunch of highly useful cmdlets for network adapter management. When you want...

PowerShell 2.0 and later In a previous tip we introduced an “acoustic progress bar” that made PowerShell play a sound for as long as it...

PowerShell 3.0 and later PowerShell ISE is completely scriptable and is accessible through the $psISE variable. This variable is present only within...

PowerShell Version 3 or better Get-Process gets you a list of all running processes, but it will not reveal the process owner. To find the process...

PowerShell 3 and better There are plenty of information web services out in the Internet, and many of them return results in JSON format. Here is an...

PowerShell 3.0 and later If you define a PowerShell function with some parameters, and you want a given parameter to have a default value that is an...

PowerShell 3.0 and later By default, PowerShell includes the current path into the prompt, and when you launch PowerShell as regular user, the...

PowerShell Version 2.0 and later In a previous tip we illustrated how you can use a web service to retrieve warranty information for DELL computers....

PowerShell 2.0 and later Let’s assume you want the user to submit a list of file extensions, or you are getting them from some other source....

PowerShell 3.0 and later Sometimes, it is hard to find out why a PowerShell script is not doing what it should do. To get a better understanding of...

PowerShell 3.0 and later PowerShell ISE already supports collapsible code regions. When you write functions, loops, or conditions, you will notice a...

PowerShell 3.0 and later In a previous tip we explained how you can turn Out-GridView into a selection dialog, and suggested a couple of ideas. One...

PowerShell 3.0 and later By default, Out-GridView is a one-way road: you can pipe data into it and display it in a grid view window, but you cannot...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Get-Service lists all services installed on your computer. It has no parameter to select only running or stopped services,...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Out-GridView is a very useful cmdlet to output results to an extra window. Unlike outputting to the console, Out-GridView...

PowerShell 3.0 and later When you develop PowerShell scripts in the PowerShell ISE, you will probably make a lot of changes and revisions, and...

Windows 8/Windows 8.1 You may have noticed that the Windows 8 start screen by default is missing PowerShell tools like the PowerShell ISE. When you...

Windows 8.1, Server 2012 R2 Investigating Active Directory replication failures becomes easy with Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2. A new cmdlet...

All Versions PowerShell can access static methods of .NET types. Here are some real world one-liners that can do a lot for you: [Math]::Round(7.9)...