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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...

PowerShell can call internal Windows API functions, and in this example, we’d like to show how you can change the show state of an application...

When you create a PowerShell function, all parameters are positional until you start adding the “Position” attribute. Once you start to do this, all...

Retrieving System Profiling Information with systeminfo.exe For ages, systeminfo.exe returned all profiling information for a computer, and could...

Resolving "HTTP 403" Errors in PowerShell Remoting If you use PowerShell remoting and get “HTTP 403” errors, one of the more obscure reasons for...

PowerShell 2+ Sometimes it becomes necessary to replace special characters like German “Umlauts” in order to normalize user names or...

PowerShell 5 The free Microsoft RSAT tools come with a full-blown ActiveDirectory module, but sometimes simple AD tasks can be mastered with just a...

Modifying a Specific Cell in an Excel Spreadsheet Using PowerShell If you need to change the content of a specific cell in an Excel spreadsheet,...

Windows maintains a log file named cbs.log in $env:windir\logs\cbs. It logs various pieces of information related to the Windows trusted installer,...

Generating Temporary Passwords the Easy Way Check out this simple way of creating temporary passwords: You can easily vary the password length: change the number…

Adding New Items to an XML Document Efficiently If you need to add new items to an XML document that already contains such items, the easiest way is...

Bringing a Process Window to the Foreground with PowerShell PowerShell can use Add-Type to access internal Windows API functions. This way, it is...

By default, the Telnet client is disabled on Windows systems. You can easily enable it with a one liner in PowerShell, though. Just launch a...

By default, PowerShell remoting uses Kerberos authentication and works only in domain environments, and only when you specify computer names, not IP...

The Test-Connection cmdlet implements a simple ping to check whether a system responds to an ICMP request. Unfortunately, you cannot specify a...

Using Get-CimInstance as an Alternative to Get-WmiObject PowerShell 3.0 added an alternative to Get-WmiObject: Get-CimInstance seems to work very...

PowerShell has a built-in support to wait until a process or many processes end: simply use Wait-Process. Understanding Data Marts and Dimensional...

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts in PowerShell ISE In the PowerShell ISE, there are two key shortcuts that can help you. Pressing TAB works just like in...

Updating Active Directory User Information with PowerShell If you have installed the free RSAT tools from Microsoft, you can use PowerShell to...

Whenever you add delegation rights to an AD object (i.e. allow a user to manage the members of an organizational unit), you really invoke a change...