If any colleagues aren't convinced of the PowerShell power, this week's trick might convert 'em.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/27/2010
Active Directory cmdlets come as modules, not PS snapins. Managing AD is easy with this new PowerShell goodie.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/19/2010
Group-Object, we hardly knew ye. One more tip before we close the book on you.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 07/13/2010
Nifty trick that shows you by name what processes you'd typically have to guess at when calling up the ParentProcessID property.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/28/2010
Gather and filter until you get the info you need. It's what the Group-Object cmdlet is all about.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/22/2010
Extensions built by the PowerShell community, for the community, has gone much improvement. Here's a few of my favorite extensions.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/15/2010
If there's such thing as a secret sauce to PowerShell, the PowerShell team has added it to the types.ps1xml file.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/25/2010
I use PowerShell's Integrated Script Editor Pack mostly for one must-have feature, but there's a whole host of cool scripting tools you might also want to check out.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/18/2010
Do you want your PowerShell environment settings to stick as you're whistling and working? Check out the ISE's very own $psISE object for ideas.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/04/2010
Get a handle on PowerShell's profile scripts, used for configuring your PS sessions.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/26/2010
The Get-Help cmdlet has some useful features you might want to take advantage of.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/20/2010
Call up transactions with PowerShell 2.0, but do so in a way that keeps you from popping up errors unexpectedly. The secret is in exceptions.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/05/2010
Configuring a Trusted Host can come to the rescue in some remoting situations, and it's PowerShell friendly.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/30/2010
PING is fine, if you're not into automation. Otherwise, use Test-Connection to see if a computer is online.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/23/2010
Cringe-worthy pun notwithstanding, the PowerShell 2.0 Integrated Scripting Environment adds a cool new dimension to writing scripts.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/15/2010