Showing archive results for October 2015

Summary: Display every Windows PowerShell example that Help contains.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to display every Help example that Windows PowerShell contains?  Use Get-Command to retrieve all of the cmdlet names, pipe the output to Foreach-Object,            and call Get-Help ...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about getting started with packet sniffing in Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One of the way cool things that happened with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 was the ability to do network traces with Windows PowerShell. I have found network tracin...

Summary: Find Windows capabilities with Windows PowerShell on Windows 10.  How can I use Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10 to determine capabilities such as handwriting,            optical character recognition (OCR), speech, and text-to-speech on my installation?  Use the Get-WindowsCapability&n...

Summary: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, presents a video where he describes converting JSON data with Windows PowerShell.Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I present a video where I talk about using the ConvertFrom-JSON cmdlet to parse information returned via Invoke-WebRequest. I am using Windows PowerShell 5.0 on Windows 10 t...

Summary: Learn how to quickly find the latest events in a Windows event log.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to look in the Application log to see the latest events?  Use the Get-Eventlog cmdlet, specify the log name, and select newest events, for example: Get-EventLog application -Newest 5