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Starting with PowerShell 5, cmdlets like Extract-Archive can extract the content of ZIP files to disk. However, you can always extract only the...

PowerShell by default does not support the native cmd.exe command such as „dir“. Instead, it uses historic aliases called “dir” to point you to the...

Use the PowerShell progress Bar Here is a simple example using the PowerShell progress bar. The code displays a progress bar counting down a break....

Beginning with PowerShell 5, the PowerShell engine starts to log executed commands and scripts. By default, only commands considered potentially...

When you query an event log with PowerShell, by default you get back a text message with the logged information. For example, if you’d like to know...

If you are about to launch a lengthy automation script, why not turn off the display right away instead of waiting for the screen saver timeout to...

In the previous tip we covered klist.exe and how it can be used to purge all Kerberos tickets for the current user so that new permissions will take...

No need to reboot a system just to apply new permission settings. Instead, purge your Kerberos tickets so that you will get a new ticket based on...

Chocolatey is a free package manager for Windows that can be used to download and install software. Installing Chocolatey via PowerShell Before you...

Enabling VT Escape Sequences in PowerShell 5.1 Starting in PowerShell 5.1, the PowerShell console supports VT escape sequences that can be used to...

When you try and sort IPv4 addresses via Sort-Object, this fails: PS> '10.1.2.3', '2.3.4.5', '1.2.3.4' | Sort-Object 1.2.3.4 10.1.2.3 2.3.4.5...

Reviewing the Test-OnlineFast Function In the previous tip we published a super-fast function called Test-OnlineFast, and this function was able to...

Revisiting the Test-Online Fast Function In the previous tip series, we developed a new function called Test-OnlineFast that can ping multiple...

Understanding Event Log Source Names When you write events to an event log using Write-EventLog, you must specify a valid source name. However,...

Here is a line of code that often puzzles PowerShell users: Get-Service | Select-Object -ExcludeProperty Name Understanding the -ExcludeProperty...

Here is a fun PowerShell function called Convert-PowerShellToBatch. Provide it with the path to a PowerShell script, or pipe in the results from...

If you’d need to find out the SID for a user name, here is a useful chunk of code that does the job: $domain =…

Out-GridView always produces a table with one object per line: Get-Process -Id $pid | Out-GridView Occasionally, it would be more helpful to display the object…

Reviewing the ActiveDirectory Module Approach In the previous tip we explained how you can use the ActiveDirectory module and its cmdlets to find...

Managing Cached Credentials with PSCredentialManager In the previous tip we talked about a public module called PSCredentialManager that helps you...

Installing PowerShell Modules with Administrator Privileges When you’d like to install modules for all users from the PowerShellGet repository, you...

Using Split() for Parsing Distinguished Names Distinguished names are strings, and strings contain powerful ways of parsing data. The most powerful...

Using PowerShellGet to Install Scripts and Modules If you use the PowerShellGet module (which ships by default on Windows 10 and Server 2016), you...

Scheduling PowerShell Scripts for Automatic Execution If you need to run a PowerShell script in regular intervals, why not run it as a scheduled...

Randomly Generated MAC addresses If you just need a bunch of randomly generated MAC addresses, and you don’t care much about whether these addresses...

Convert a binary text string into integer Here is how you convert a binary text string into the corresponding integer value: $binary = "110110110"...

Sometimes it could be useful to load all attributes from a given AD user into a hash table. This way, you could edit them, and then use Set-ADUser...

To manage users and computers in your Active Directory from PowerShell, you need the ActiveDirectory module which comes as part of the free RSAT...

Checking for an Element in an Array Using PowerShell If you’d like to know whether an array contains a given element, PowerShell provides the...

LDAP filters LDAP filters are a fast and powerful way of retrieving information from Active Directory. However, LDAP filters use a very low-level...