PowerShell Get-Counter PowerShell's Get-Counter provides an alternative technique to employing Perfmon. Normally it’s easy to be enthusiastic about PowerShell, but in the case of Get-Counter, I would not attempt to create scripts until I had a working knowledge of Performance Monitoring. Topics for PowerShell's Get-Counter Our Mission Example 1: Check …
Windows PowerShell Examples Featuring Get-Process This page of PowerShell examples concentrates on Windows processes such as you can see in Task Manager. We will begin by learning how scripting can mimic what you can do with taskmgr, then progress to displaying data that is just not visible in the Task …
Scripting File Shares with Microsoft PowerShell It’s hard to see how any network could operate without file shares. In fact, planning shared folders is one of my first tasks for a new server. Thanks to the WMI’s Win32_Share class, PowerShell can list or enumerate your existing file shares. Topics for …
Network Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell 3.0 PowerShell 3.0 brings lots of handy new network cmdlets – I say cmdlets, but to be precise they are functions, but with the familiar Verb-Noun pairing. Research PowerShell Network Commands Show-Command with Get-NetIPAddress Example 1: Get-NetIPAddress Script Example 2: Get-NetIPInterface PowerShell 3.0 in Windows …
Windows PowerShell WMI Services PowerShell provides two distinct ways of scripting Windows services. For lists of services I employ Get-WmiObject win32_service. However, when I want to deal with a particular service I choose Get-Service followed by nameOfService. Topics for PowerShell Get-WmiObject win32_service Our Mission Preliminary Check of the Properties with …
Windows PowerShell Help Files PowerShell has a selection of about_ files. It’s a pity that stay these trees-of-wisdom stay in the shadows of the help for Verb-Noun cmdlets. The purpose of this page is to alert you to the interesting information in these lesser known about_Topic files. Topics for PowerShell …
Spreadsheet PowerShell Export-CSV Comma separated values are the ideal format for translating lines of text into rows in a spreadsheet. Since much of PowerShell’s output is in columns, all we need is a cmdlet which will export CSV data, then we can exploit Excel’s mathematical capability. PowerShell Export-CSV Topics Example …
How To Schedule Tasks for PowerShell Scripts The situation: You have a PowerShell 3.0 script that you want to run every day, or every week. Alternatively, you want to execute PowerShell 3.0 commands after a particular event occurs. My advice is don’t re-Invent the wheel; take advantage of the built-in …
Restore Your Computer With PowerShell My mission on this page is to explain how to restore your computer’s system settings using two PowerShell commands, Restore-Computer and firstly, Get-ComputerRestorePoint While you could do this via the Control Panel, I will show you how PowerShell can not only perform the restore, but …
How to Delete Windows Event Log Messages Our mission is to 'zero' those dozens of Windows event logs that don't respond to PowerShell's native command: Clear-Eventlog. To avoid disaster by being too gung-ho, I recommend that you practice with Get-WinEvent and Clear-Eventlog before you try my examples on this page. …