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Summary: Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to count backwards in a Windows PowerShell array.  I know I can access the first, second, and third items in an array by using $Array[0], $Array[1], and $Array[2], but how can I count backwards?  Use negative numbers, for example: $Array = @('first','second','third') $Array[0...

Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, shows how to import a certificate into a KSP and bring it into the certificate store. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scripting Guy this week. You can find me on Twitter (@MrThomasRayner) or on my blog, Wor...

Summary: Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to set a variable to a default value in PowerShell.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to prompt a user for a value for a variable, but provide a default value if the user doesn’t enter anything?  First prompt the user for the value to the variable and then detect if the respo...

Summary: Thomas Rayner, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, shows how to delete your Windows CA certificates and crypto provider as a part of migrating a Windows certification authority from CSP to KSP and from SHA-1 to SHA-256. Hello! I’m Thomas Rayner, a proud Cloud & Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP, filling in for The Scrip...

Summary: Cloud & Datacenter Management MVP, Thomas Rayner, shows how to use positional parameters in Windows PowerShell.  I always see people pass variables or data to a function without specifying the parameter name that the data is for, for example: “copy-item $source $destination” acts like “copy-item –path $source –destination $destination...