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Here is how you can create random passwords that meet certain requirements: function Get-RandomPassword { param( $length = 10, $characters =...

Whenever you need to create a new random password, be sure to check out this function: function Get-RandomPassword { param( $length = 10,...

Have you ever used VBScript? Would you like your MsgBox dialog back? Here is how:...

PowerShell and .NET can do amazing things, but they are not good at creating shortcuts. However, you can create a shortcut on your Desktop in a...

In a previous tip, you learned how to quickly ping network segments. Next, you could resolve online IPs and get host lists of systems currently...

Using PowerShell Background Jobs, you can find a large number of online systems within only a few seconds: function Check-Online { param(...

How would you know if all PowerShell scripts on a production critical server are safe? Here is a simple line that can help you conduct a security...

Imagine you opened a number of Web pages in Internet Explorer and would like to keep the display current. Instead of manually reloading these pages...

You should avoid cmdlets if you need to copy large files or a large number of files. Instead, you should use native commands like robocopy. This...

When you use VMware, or if you have installed a Microsoft Loopback adapter, these adapters will show up in your network panel as "Unidentified...

Sometimes, it is necessary to reset network adapters, such as after you changed settings for that adapter in your registry. Resetting a network...

If you need to systematically disable network adapters, all you need is the name of the adapter (as stated in your control panel or returned by...

Finding your network adapters with WMI isn't always easy because WMI treats a lot of "network-like" adapters like network adapters. To...

If you must ensure that a PowerShell script runs with Admin privileges, you can add this to the beginning of your script: $identity =...

If you want to systematically test whether you currently have Administrator privileges, you can use this function: function Test-Admin { $identity =...

If you want to get more control over function parameters, you can treat them as hash table. So in your function, you can then check whether a...

To find out which parameters that a user submitted to a self-defined function, you can use $PSCmdlet like this: function Get-Parameters {...

If you made changes to your profile script and want to see the changes that are in effect without having to close and restart PowerShell, you can...

Profile scripts are automatically executed whenever PowerShell launches. Your profile script is the perfect place to customize your PowerShell...

Enter-PSSession will let you switch your console input to a remote computer—if remoting is enabled on the target computer. Essentially,...

If your company is using an Internet proxy, and you'd like to access Internet with a webclient object, make sure it uses the proxy and supplies...

When you assign strongly typed values to an array, the type declaration will remain intact only as long as you do not add new array content: $array...

Use New-Item like this when you want to create a file plus all the folders necessary to host the file: new-item -type file -force...

Some code may not work right on 64-Bit machines. Use this approach to make PowerShell execute code in an isolated 32-Bit PowerShell session and hand...

When you assign long-running commands to a background session, you may want to get some notification when the job is completed so you don't have...

You can also transfer commands into another PowerShell session and run it in the background. This will find all log files recursively in your...

You should remember that spaces are special characters in PowerShell, too. They are token delimiters, and once you feed arguments to a native...

You probably already know that not all native commands work equally well in PowerShell. Have a look here: find /I /N "dir" *.ps1 In...

There is a great way to download large files from the Internet. This example downloads a tutorial video from Idera that, once downloaded will run in...

You can use this code to open a standard OpenFile dialog in your PowerShell scripts:...