During December I decided to dedicate myself to learning Powershell for the next few months. Many of the blogs I follow and some of my respected peers have recommended the Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches book and ashamedly I have owned the book and never gotten past the first chapters. The reason I […]
Category archives: PowerShell
Generate random numbers in PowerShell with Get-Random
Generate random numbers in PowerShell with Get-Random Have you ever wanted to generate random numbers for passwords, test data…. and wondered how you could easily generate them? Well I was confronted by the same situation on one of our servers where I needed some random numbers for inputting wait times to test an application but […]
List Hotfixes installed with PowerShell with Get-Hotfix
Have you ever wondered what updates have been applied to your Windows operating system? Well a quick and easy way to do that is to use the PowerShell command Get-Hotfix. This will list out the description, the HotfixID and when it was installed. I used this on a few PCs where it appeared that updates […]
Powershell Alias List
Have you ever wandered whether you could speed up your script writing,shorten down your snippets or come across strange commands in PowerShell? Well PowerShell’s Aliases would be the answer to all the above scenarios. I first came across them when I saw it in a friends script and could not ascertain what GDR was and […]
Output results from PowerShell to CSV or XML
Have you wanted to output results from PowerShell to CSV or XML? Well I am going to show you how. I have previously explained how to export results of PowerShell queries but did not include how to export the results to CSV or XML. The reason for that is that when you become familiar with […]
Open files using PowerShell Get-Content
Have you ever wanted to open a file and view its contents using PowerShell? Well I am going to show you how. I frequently output the results of PowerShell queries into files for later review but rarely used PowerShell to view the contents. This has been because I always had other programs readily available to […]
Simple way to output results to a file using PowerShell
Have you ever wanted to send the output of a PowerShell command to a file? Well I am going to show you how. When you run a PowerShell command like Get-Process, Get-Host…. It will return useful information but sometimes you want to save that information for future reference. You could cut and paste or take […]
List active process running using PowerShell
Have you ever wanted to quickly find the processes running using Powershell? Wanted an alternate to Task Manager? Well I am going to show you how. Whenever I get a call from someone about a performance issue on any of our SQL Servers I always usually have a quick glance of Task Manager so that […]
Get the Operating System Properties via PowerShell
Have you ever wanted to get all the operating system properties of a computer? Well I am going to show you a short PowerShell script which can get loads of information about the operating system. One of my colleagues was googling around for information about how to find the windows directory, number of users, last […]
Search PowerShell help using wildcards
Have you ever wanted to search for new commands or have difficulty remember syntax? Well I recently found the wildcard search function within the help system and I am going to show you how to use it. You could use the commands feature which is below and can be accessed via Add-ons > Commands Or […]