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
A new beta-test search tool for PowerShell users that's designed to find code across local and online repositories was released by Microsoft on Monday.
Microsoft shared some information this week on the relationship between Windows Server 8 and PowerShell.
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
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
Microsoft revealed that Windows 8 will have a sophisticated "storage spaces" feature that works with NTFS.
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