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Update XML files using PowerShell

March 30, 2023 Mar 30, 2023 03/30/23

Sonam Rastogi

This posts explains how to update XML files using PowerShell

Mastering the (steppable) pipeline

January 30, 2023 Jan 30, 2023 01/30/23

Ronald Bode

The PowerShell pipeline explained from the beginning to the end.

PowerShell Registry Monitor

September 20, 2022 Sep 20, 2022 09/20/22

Francisco Nabas

How to set up a simple registry key monitor with PowerShell

The many flavours of WMI management

August 16, 2022 Aug 16, 2022 08/16/22

Francisco Nabas

Working with the different ways of managing WMI.

Password Expiry Notification Using Teams and Graph API

August 4, 2022 Aug 4, 2022 08/4/22

Faris Malaeb

This post's intent is to show how to use Graph API through PowerShell to send a Teams message.

Cheat Sheet – Console Experience

July 11, 2022 Jul 11, 2022 07/11/22

Fred

How to have more control of preferences in functions and the role of modules on inheritance.

Reading Configuration Manager Status Messages With PowerShell

June 27, 2022 Jun 27, 2022 06/27/22

Francisco Nabas

This post's intent is to show how to read Configuration Manager status messages using WMI and Win32 API function FormatMessage.

On Preferences and Scopes

April 1, 2022 Apr 1, 2022 04/1/22

James O'Neill

Progress in PowerShell: a tale of Verbosity and other preferences with lessons in Scopes and Proxies thrown in It started, as these things often do, with someone complaining. In PowerShell Version 7.2 the output of and look like this: In all the earlier versions they look like the version below, which is more helpful when you're trying ...

How to Preview PowerShell Scripts In PowerShell

December 13, 2021 Dec 13, 2021 12/13/21

@DoctorDNS

Q: When I use Windows Explorer and select a PowerShell script file - I do not see the script in the preview window. Can I fix that? A: You can make a few simple registry updates and do just what you want! At some time in the deep and distant past, Windows Explorer gained the preview pane feature. The idea is simple: you select a file in ...

How to Use $PSDefaultParameterValues

December 7, 2021 Dec 7, 2021 12/7/21

@DoctorDNS

Q: When I use cmdlets like and , how do I change default values of the Keep and Wrap parameters? A: Use the automatic variable. When I first discovered PowerShell's background jobs feature, I would use to view job output - only to discover it's no longer there. And almost too often to count, I pipe objects to cmdlet only to get truncated...