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Hover over "FAQs" in the site's main menu, or visit PowerShell FAQs for the new PowerShell-focused section of Windows IT Pro's Frequently Asked Questions. You're guaranteed to find a tip or two that you didn't know...
A. There’s only one difference between single and double quotes in PowerShell: Inside double quotes, PowerShell looks for the $ character. If it finds it, it assumes that any following characters, up to the next white space, are a variable name...
Last week, Iposted about a problem I was having with Invoke-Command. In short, I was trying to pipe in an object that had a ComputerName property, expecting it to bind to Invoke-Command's -computerName parameter, thus invoking a command on...
Determining whether a variable exists before attempting to use it is helpful when writing scripts. However, if you look at the PowerShell cmdlets, you won't find a cmdlet devoted solely to this task. The reason is that PowerShell doesn't need one...
Bing's "Visual Search" doohickey has a new friend:Windows PowerShell cmdlets. Basically, you get a page full of big, colorful boxes that each represent one of the core (e.g., built-in) PowerShell cmdlets. They're color-grouped based on noun, so...
So, I've been prepping some new materials for thisUSB flash drive training kit that I offer at conferences and classes I teach at, and I constructed a statement like this...
Be on the lookout: MOC course 10325A, "Automating Administration with Microsoft Windows PowerShell version 2," will be coming to a training center near you this Fall. In fact,Greg Shields and I will be attending a beta teach of the course during...
When I was approached to begin blogging here on Windows IT Pro, the publishing team's first question to me was, "what will you write about?" PowerShell was an obvious answer, since I've been working with it since well before its launch; in fact...
I found myself having to grab a bunch of information from several servers today. They're all domain controllers, and I actually have several text files that list all of my servers holding various roles. There's a DomainControllers.txt file, a...