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No need to reboot a system just to apply new permission settings. Instead, purge your Kerberos tickets so that you will get a new ticket based on...

Chocolatey is a free package manager for Windows that can be used to download and install software. Installing Chocolatey via PowerShell Before you...

Enabling VT Escape Sequences in PowerShell 5.1 Starting in PowerShell 5.1, the PowerShell console supports VT escape sequences that can be used to...

When you try and sort IPv4 addresses via Sort-Object, this fails: PS> '10.1.2.3', '2.3.4.5', '1.2.3.4' | Sort-Object 1.2.3.4 10.1.2.3 2.3.4.5...

Reviewing the Test-OnlineFast Function In the previous tip we published a super-fast function called Test-OnlineFast, and this function was able to...

Revisiting the Test-Online Fast Function In the previous tip series, we developed a new function called Test-OnlineFast that can ping multiple...

Understanding Event Log Source Names When you write events to an event log using Write-EventLog, you must specify a valid source name. However,...

Here is a line of code that often puzzles PowerShell users: Get-Service | Select-Object -ExcludeProperty Name Understanding the -ExcludeProperty...

Here is a fun PowerShell function called Convert-PowerShellToBatch. Provide it with the path to a PowerShell script, or pipe in the results from...

If you’d need to find out the SID for a user name, here is a useful chunk of code that does the job: $domain = 'MyDomain' $username = 'User01' $sid...

Out-GridView always produces a table with one object per line: Get-Process -Id $pid | Out-GridView Occasionally, it would be more helpful to display...

Reviewing the ActiveDirectory Module Approach In the previous tip we explained how you can use the ActiveDirectory module and its cmdlets to find...