PowerShell Printers I will show you how to use PowerShell to extract information about your printers. We will create a script which not only lists the printers, but also reveals their properties. For example, the printer’s sharename, driver, status and 90 other properties. Topics for PowerShell’s Printers Tasks for PowerShell …
Introduction to Microsoft PowerShell’s Drives Learning how to map a network drive in PowerShell is much easier than the equivalent MapNetworkDrive in VBScript. My biggest surprise with Get-PSDrive was that the registry appeared in the results. I was expecting a list of the local and network drive, but I had …
PowerShell Out-GridView – New in Version 2.0 Out-GridView provides a better way for PowerShell to present tabulated information. It works particularly well for displaying data returned by Get-Service or Get-Process. Topics for PowerShell Out-GridView Introduction to Out-GridView Ex 1: Out-GridView and Get-Service Ex 2: Out-GridView and Get-Process Members of the …
Windows PowerShell Loops Explained PowerShell has a variety of methods for stepping through data. The purpose of this page is to explain the differences between, 'For' and ForEach loops, and also how they in turn differ from the ForEach-Object cmdlet. Differences Bettween PowerShell Loops Example 1: PowerShell's For Loop Example …
PowerShell Compare-Object Registry The mission of this page is to employ PowerShell’s Compare-Object to find differences in registry settings, in other words, to discover where changes to settings are stored in the registry. Topics for Compare-Object Mission to Generate a List of Differences Example 1: To Compare Two Files, and …
Introduction to Windows PowerShell Out-File There are many occasions when you need to output the results of a script not to the screen, but want PowerShell to write to a file. In the old DOS days we could use the greater than symbol: ‘>’. However, to redirect PowerShell output we …
PowerShell Scripts – Check Disk with Win32_LogicalDisk Our mission is to investigate and interrogate a computer’s logical disk. Goals include discovering the size of each volume, and how much free space is available. We also have pure PowerShell goals, for example, to examine the ‘Select’ statement, and to control the …
Display Error Codes with Microsoft PowerShell My mission on this page is to show you how to display error codes, furthermore, I will explain how to translate meaningless numbers into meaningful phrases. Topics for Error Codes in PowerShell Example 1: How to Create a PowerShell Function Example 2: Using a …
Windows PowerShell Scripting New-Item PowerShell’s New-Item is a versatile cmdlet particularly good for creating files and folders. New-Item typifies PowerShell’s simplicity coupled with power, added to versatility. Windows PowerShell New-Item Topics Example 1: New-Item Folder Example 2: New-Item File Example 3: New-Item Registry More New-Item Tutorials ♣ Example 1: New-Item …
PowerShell Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration:More flexible Than Ipconfig Scripting WMI objects with PowerShell is a particularly productive area. On this page I will illustrate PowerShell’s capabilities by creating a script which is more flexible than Ipconfig. PowerShell Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration Topics Our Mission Objective 1: List WMI Objects Objective 2: WmiObject | Get-Member Objective 3: …