Announcing the General Availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL 8.9.7

Beginning with PowerShell 5, the PowerShell engine starts to log executed commands and scripts. By default, only commands considered potentially harmful are logged. When you enable verbose logging, though, all executed code from all users on a given machine are...

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 who logged on to your machine, you could use code like this (Administrator privileges required): Get-EventLog -LogName...

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 kick in? Turns off your Display Immediate Here is a simple function that turns off your display immediately. Just move...

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 effect immediately. Combining PowerShell with klist.exe for More Flexibility While PowerShell can run external apps...

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 the current permissions. PowerShell Command to Purge Kerberos Tickets In PowerShell, use this command to purge all cached...

Chocolatey is a free package manager for Windows that can be used to download and install software. Installing Chocolatey via PowerShell Before you can use Chocolatey from PowerShell, you need to download and install it. If you don’t have administrator privileges, use...

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 position and format console text. Note that this works in the console only, not the PowerShell ISE. Note also that you...

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 Alphanumeric Sorting by Default This is no surprise because the data is of type “string”, so Sort-Object uses alphanumeric...

Reviewing the Test-OnlineFast Function In the previous tip we published a super-fast function called Test-OnlineFast, and this function was able to ping an entire IP segment in record time: PS> $iprange = 1..200 | ForEach-Object { "192.168.189.$_" } PS>...

Revisiting the Test-Online Fast Function In the previous tip series, we developed a new function called Test-OnlineFast that can ping multiple computers in record time. For some reason, the final version of this function did not include the pipeline support we...