Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 to find the size of disks, partitions, and volumes. How can I find disk space information for disks, partitions, and volumes on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012? Use the Get-Disk, Get-Partition, and Get-Volume functions. Note &nbs...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using the Windows 8 storage module to create partitions and to format disks. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today, I thought I would spend a bit more time playing around with the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 cmdlets in the storage module. To find these cmdlet...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders. How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to quickly show folders and subfolders? Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet with the –Directory and the –Recurse switch. Select only parent and name. This command is shown her...
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, uses Windows PowerShell 3.0 to sort folders by size. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. It is amazing how things continue to go in circles … I know I have written a script to sort folders by size many times in many different languages. I recently ran across a function written by Jef...
Summary: Easily find the location of the Windows PowerShell current user current host profile. How can I find the location of the current Windows PowerShell profile for your current host? Use the $profile automatic variable, as shown here: 13:25 C:\> $profile C:\Users\ed.IAMMRED\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_p...
