Announcing the General Availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL 8.9.7

By default, PowerShell uses simple “object arrays” when you define lists, when commands return more than one result, or when you otherwise need to store more than one thing in a variable. Default object arrays are OK but they cannot grow once you created them. When...

Managing Network Shares with the SMBShare Module Windows comes with a module called “SMBShare” which contains 42 cmdlets to manage network shares. This module works with Windows PowerShell and PowerShell 7: PS> Get-Command -Module SMBShare CommandType Name Version...

Out-GridView can be a universal dialog when you use the -OutputMode or -PassThru parameters. When you do, a grid view window displays additional buttons in its lower right corner so you can choose items and pass them on to additional cmdlets. This line could help...

Occasionally, date and time information are stored as “Ticks” in the format of a so-called “FileTime”. Ticks are 100-nanosecond units since 01/01/1601. Active Directory internally uses this format, yet you can also find it elsewhere. Reading Windows Installation Time...

With Install-Module, you can easily download and install additional PowerShell modules from the PowerShell Gallery (www.powershellgallery.com). However, on Windows systems this command may be broken. Many Windows systems still ship with the outdated version 1.x, and...

Occasionally, PowerShell scripts need to access or use the built-in Administrator account or the built-in Administrators group. Unfortunately, their names are localized, so their names can change based on the language of your Windows operating system. SIDs (security...

Reading some registry values with PowerShell is typically a snap: simply use Get-ItemProperty. This snippet of code reads the Windows operating system details, for example: $Path = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" Get-ItemProperty -Path $Path |...