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
PowerShell 3 makes some much-needed improvements to the Get-ChildItem cmdlet.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/17/2012
When looking for cmdlet help, PowerShell 3 goes beyond version 2 with an Update-Help cmdlet.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/09/2012
Let's start off 2012 with a tip I learned just recently: Using the PowerShell $FormatEnumerationLimit variable to customize the number of entries viewable via the Dir command.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 01/05/2012
Here's something nifty: you don't have uninstall PowerShell 2 to use version 3.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/20/2011
PowerShell 3 adds new console redirection operators for streaming pipeline output.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/13/2011
Sometimes the standby command-line or resource kit tools work best. Still, there is a way to use information from those tools with further processing in PowerShell and this command helps.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 12/06/2011
Go GUI-less and avoid the Get-Credential cmdlet's dialog with this helpful script for supplying alternative credentials.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/15/2011
There's power in defining constants, even in PowerShell. Check out this week's tip.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/07/2011
PowerShell can help you retrieve collections of objects or services, or just a unique subset of information. Let's look at a few cmdlets that can help you narrow your focus.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/01/2011
I advise against it. But if you must use a logon script to authenticate, here's how to get it done with PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/25/2011