Summary: Boe Prox shows us how to manage window placement in Windows PowerShell. Honorary Scripting Guy and Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Boe Prox, here today filling in for my good friend, the Scripting Guy. Today I start a little weekend fun by using a technique known as platform invoke, or PInvoke for short. What is PInvoke, you ask? Well...
Summary: Use a free add-on to directly access scripts and modules from the Windows PowerShell ISE. In Windows PowerShell 5.0, I can access the TechNet Gallery for PowerShell modules, but is there an easy way to access and search the older Script Center Repository from the PowerShell ISE? In the P...
Summary: Rusty discovers the power of classes and enums in Windows PowerShell 5.0. Note This is a five-part series that includes the following posts: When last we ran into our good friend Rusty, he had encountered the infamous Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, and listened to his introduction about the ConvertFrom-Strin...
Summary: Use the Format-Hex cmdlet to produce hexadecimal output. How can I use Windows PowerShell to put data in a binary key in the registry? In Windows PowerShell 5.0, you can use the Format-Hex cmdlet, for example: ‘This is meant to be binary’ | Format-Hex $DataForRegistry=(‘This is meant to be ...
Summary: Rusty the Red-Eyed Scripter learns how PowerShell can convert raw string data to an object. Note This is a five-part series that includes the following posts: Yesterday, our good friend Rusty found his head spinning with ideas after getting shown some new PowerShell cmdlets—cmdlets he could immedi...
