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Summary: Easily use Windows PowerShell to reverse an array.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to reverse an array?  Pipe the array to the Sort-Object cmdlet and use the –Descending switch, for example: $a = 1,2,3,4,5 $b = $a | sort -Descending

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about creating local groups. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Creating a local group works exactly the same way as creating a local user account (see Use PowerShell to Create Local User Accounts). The process involves the following steps:   Notes  At this p...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a hash table that holds all ASCII lowercase letters.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a hash table that holds all lowercase ASCII letters?  Create an empty ordered dictionary, and then use the add method to add the numbers 97-122            as key...

Summary: Retrieve specific items from a Windows PowerShell hash table.  How can I use Windows PowerShell t retrieve specific values associated with specific keys in a hash table?  Suppose you have a hash table such as this: $d = @{a=28;b=29;c=30} The keys and values associated with the hash table are: PS C:> $d   Name  &...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to create an ordered dictionary. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the really cool things that was introduced in Windows PowerShell 3.0, is that I can create an ordered dictionary. Basically, an ordered dictionary works like a Windows PowerShell...