Baby-stepping into new PowerShell territory.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/01/2012
Working with the -eq, -match, and -like comparison operators in PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/24/2012
Don't just stick with the commands that Microsoft provides -- extend the commands in PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/17/2012
The trick is easy with the aptly named Restart-Computer
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/10/2012
Variables already come with descriptions, but you can also provide more clarity to those descriptions as needed.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/02/2012
Revise error messages for maximum effect through the $host object's PrivateData property.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/27/2012
Fun with file and folder attributes, via PowerShell and the DIR command.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/20/2012
Now that we know how to set up a timer object, let's get it to do something awesome. Part 2 in a series on the timer object.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/13/2012
Create a timer object with PowerShell New-Object cmdlet to schedule recurring tasks at intervals.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/06/2012
When we can't leverage the pipeline, we can turn to the ForEach-Object cmdlet to help with some heavy lifting.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/28/2012
Windows System Restore can be managed through several PowerShell cmdlets. We cover some of them here.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/21/2012
Order in the script -- with the here string.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/14/2012
Working with variables will improve with the next version of PowerShell. Take this week's example, $PSDefaultParameterValues, a new automatic variable.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 02/07/2012
The Group-Object cmdlet can offer up lots of information if you extract that info through hash tables. Here's how.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/31/2012
PowerShell can dig up information on processes pretty easily. It's all in the FileVersion property.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/24/2012