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Testing RPC ports with PowerShell (and yes, it’s as much fun as it sounds!)

Doctor Scripto November 13, 2019 Nov 13, 2019 11/13/19

Summary: Using PowerShell to identify RPC ports in use by capturing content from Dos Commands like PortQRY.exe We'd like to introduce you today to one of our newest bloggers! It's a froopingly awesome friend of ours, Joel Vickery, PFE. (did I mention Dr. Scripto is a big fan of books written by Douglas Adams?....oops!) Take it away ...

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 4

Doctor Scripto October 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 10/16/19

Summary: Using Windows PowerShell to purge Wlan profiles with NetSh.exe. Last week we had a way with a Regular Expression to run one Netsh.exe command and show only the profile names as a PowerShell Array. Today we're going to finish the task and show you how to delete those Profiles. As a quick reminder here's the line in PowerShell ...

Creating a Platform Independent Function in PowerShell

Doctor Scripto September 18, 2019 Sep 18, 2019 09/18/19

Summary: Creating a Function in PowerShell and the power of the $PSVersionTable to make code more portable Q: Hey, Doctor Scripto! I saw that post last week on converting Here-String into an array. I wanted to write my code to trap for PowerShell and PowerShell Core. Could you give me a helping hand? —PG A: Hello PG, Hello ...

Maximizing the Power of Here-String in PowerShell for Configuration Data

Doctor Scripto September 11, 2019 Sep 11, 2019 09/11/19

Summary: Discovering some of the awesome and neat ways to leverage a Here-String in a Script or function Q: Hey, Doctor Scripto! I used to write scripts with supporting configuration files that never really changed. I was wondering if there was any way to put them INSIDE the script directly to make it self contained. —AB A: Hello...

PowerTip: Use a regular expression pattern to remove nonalphabetic characters

Doctor Scripto April 15, 2016 Apr 15, 2016 04/15/16

Summary: Learn how to use a regular expression pattern to remove non-alphabetic characters from a string by using Windows PowerShell. How can I use Windows PowerShell to remove non-alphabetic characters from a string? To remove nonalphabetic characters from a string, you can use the -Replace operator and substitute an empty string ‘’ ...

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Testing RPC ports with PowerShell (and yes, it’s as much fun as it sounds!)

Using PowerShell to View and Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10 – Part 4

Creating a Platform Independent Function in PowerShell

Maximizing the Power of Here-String in PowerShell for Configuration Data

PowerTip: Use a regular expression pattern to remove nonalphabetic characters

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