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    On Preferences and Scopes
    On Preferences and Scopes
    April 1, 2022 Apr 1, 2022 04/1/22
    James O
    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 Invoke-WebRequest -Verbose and Invoke-RestMethod -Verbose look like this: In all the earlier versions they look like the ...

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    Understanding Get-ACL and AD Drive Output
    Understanding Get-ACL and AD Drive Output
    September 30, 2021 Sep 30, 2021 09/30/21
    Faris M
    Understanding Active Directory ACL using PowerShell can be a bit tricky. There are no out-of-the-box cmdlets with ActiveDirectory PowerShell module to help in settings the permission quickly. While there are no cmdlets, you can nevertheless manage AD permissions using the AD PowerShell drive. In this post, I will try to simplify Active ...

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    How to Make Use Of PowerShell Profile Files
    How to Make Use Of PowerShell Profile Files
    September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21
    Thomas L
    Q: I would like to personalize the way that PowerShell works. I have heard that I can use a thing called a profile to do this, but when I try to find information about profiles, I come up blank. There is no New-Profile cmdlet, so I do not see how to create such a thing. Can you help me, please? A: Profiles are a powerful part of PowerShell ...

    2PowerShellprofile
    How can I be notified any time a service goes down?
    How can I be notified any time a service goes down?
    August 10, 2021 Aug 10, 2021 08/10/21
    Faris M
    Q: How can I be notified any time a service goes down? A: The short quick answer to utilizing WMI and PowerShell 7. You use PowerShell to create temporary event monitoring using WMI. Then WMI monitors any service changes and generates an alert once it detects a change. Basic Requirement To achieve this, you need Windows ...

    Comments are closed.0EventsPowerShellWMI
    How to Update or Add a Registry Key Value with PowerShell
    How to Update or Add a Registry Key Value with PowerShell
    July 30, 2021 Jul 30, 2021 07/30/21
    Thomas L
    Q: I am having a problem trying to update the registry. I am using the New-ItemProperty cmdlet, but it fails if the registry key does not exist. I added the –Force parameter, but it still does not create the registry key. The error message says that it cannot find the path because it does not exist. Is there something I am not doing? I ...

    3PowerShellproviderregistry
    How to Change the Start Page for the Edge Browser
    How to Change the Start Page for the Edge Browser
    June 21, 2021 Jun 21, 2021 06/21/21
    Thomas L
    Q: How can I change the Edge startup page? A: You can change the start page easily using PowerShell. Edge and It's Start Page I am basing this article on the latest incarnation of the Edge browser, aka Edge Chromium. The settings in this article seem to work fine on the latest versions of Windows 10 and Server 2022. Other browsers can have ...

    8EdgePowerShell
    How to rename a NIC
    How to rename a NIC
    June 13, 2021 Jun 13, 2021 06/13/21
    Thomas L
    Q: Is there a simple way to rename a NIC, especially inside a Hyper-V VM? A: You can change the name of any Windows NIC using PowerShell - whether the NIC is in a physical host or a Hyper-V VM. NICS and NIC names One thing that can quickly become confusing when using Hyper-V with multiple VMs and VM Switches is how fast the network adapters...

    4networkNICPowerShell
    How to send output to a file
    How to send output to a file
    May 24, 2021 May 24, 2021 05/24/21
    Thomas L
    Q: Is there an easy way to save my script output to a text file rather than displaying it on screen? A: Of course - there are multiple ways to do just that! PowerShell and Output One of PowerShell's great features is the way it automatically formats output. You type a command - PowerShell gives you the output it thinks you want. If the ...

    2outputPowerShell
    Sending data to the Clipboard from PowerShell
    Sending data to the Clipboard from PowerShell
    May 1, 2021 May 1, 2021 05/1/21
    Sean K
    Q: Hey I have a fun question! I remember reading a while back about using VBScript to paste to the clipboard. Are we able to do that with PowerShell? A: Why yes, yes we can! It is far often a much quicker solution if we start with PowerShell! Pasting content to the clipboard, the old VBScript method Before we show the quick and easy ...

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    A Reusable File System Event Watcher for PowerShell
    A Reusable File System Event Watcher for PowerShell
    March 18, 2021 Mar 18, 2021 03/18/21
    Wolfgang G
    FSWatcherEngineEvent module provides events of file system changes as powershell engine event

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