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Managing Cached Credentials with PSCredentialManager In the previous tip we talked about a public module called PSCredentialManager that helps you...

Installing PowerShell Modules with Administrator Privileges When you’d like to install modules for all users from the PowerShellGet repository, you...

Using Split() for Parsing Distinguished Names Distinguished names are strings, and strings contain powerful ways of parsing data. The most powerful...

Using PowerShellGet to Install Scripts and Modules If you use the PowerShellGet module (which ships by default on Windows 10 and Server 2016), you...

Scheduling PowerShell Scripts for Automatic Execution If you need to run a PowerShell script in regular intervals, why not run it as a scheduled...

Randomly Generated MAC addresses If you just need a bunch of randomly generated MAC addresses, and you don’t care much about whether these addresses...

Convert a binary text string into integer Here is how you convert a binary text string into the corresponding integer value: $binary = "110110110"...

Sometimes it could be useful to load all attributes from a given AD user into a hash table. This way, you could edit them, and then use Set-ADUser...

To manage users and computers in your Active Directory from PowerShell, you need the ActiveDirectory module which comes as part of the free RSAT...

Checking for an Element in an Array Using PowerShell If you’d like to know whether an array contains a given element, PowerShell provides the...

LDAP filters LDAP filters are a fast and powerful way of retrieving information from Active Directory. However, LDAP filters use a very low-level...

PowerShell can call internal Windows API functions, and in this example, we’d like to show how you can change the show state of an application...