Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the first 140 characters from a string. How can I use Windows PowerShell to retrieve the first 140 characters from a string? Use the SubString method from a string. Specify the starting point (in this case 0) and the number of characters to re...
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about error handling and two types of errors. Hey, Scripting Guy! I really don’t get it. Everyone tells me I need to use Try/Catch/Finally to catch errors, but it simply won’t work. I am not sure if there is a bug in Windows PowerShell, but I wish you guys would fix it because it ...
Summary: Learn how to find Windows PowerShell exported types. How can I easily look at runspace exported types in Windows PowerShell? Call the Assembly property from the [psobject] type accelerator, and then call the GetExportedTypes() method, for example: [psobject]...
Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about backwards compatibility in Windows PowerShell. Hey, Scripting Guy! I wrote a script on a system with Windows PowerShell 4.0 installed. Is there an easy way to find out the earliest version of Windows PowerShell on which it will run?—DH Hello DH,Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a new virtual disk. How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a new virtual disk? Use the New-VirtualDisk cmdlet, for example: New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName Data -FriendlyName MyData -Size 10GB
