There are more than 800 functions and cmdlets, so start getting familiar with them.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/09/2009
PowerShell 2.0 has the power to do more. But you gotta read the help to find out what works and what doesn't. Herewith, an example.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/03/2009
Is it a PowerShell 1.0 script or is it version 2? Remember which one with this simple scripting tip.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/27/2009
Windows 7 officially hits the street this week, and so does PowerShell 2.0. The better, faster PowerShell.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/20/2009
The Tee-Object cmdlet offers up another way of seeing data coughed up by other output cmdlets.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 10/06/2009
PowerShell is all-seeing. Even Word document data can be viewed using some PowerShell cmdlets.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/29/2009
You can pull a library's worth of info with this very useful command. Here's the trick.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/22/2009
After the last two columns, I know you want to work with registries from other computers. It's a bit complicated, but here's a start.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/15/2009
Microsoft on Wednesday released a test preview of Windows Management Framework components for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.
Another registry trick, this time for getting a nicely formatted list of filtered registry values.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/08/2009
Mini-series on PowerShell tricks for working with registry starts now.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 09/01/2009
Microsoft got it right with Windows 7, according to Michael Cherry, vice president of research on operating systems for Directions on Microsoft.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/31/2009
The Get-Counter cmdlet gets better in PowerShell 2.0, with easier access to performance counter data.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/25/2009
XML was an easy one; how about CSV? PowerShell 2.0 has a cmdlet for that too.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/11/2009
PowerShell 2 can create viable XML files you can use just about anywhere you want to use an XML file's data.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 08/04/2009