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When you create a PowerShell function, all parameters are positional until you start adding the “Position” attribute. Once you start to do this, all...

Retrieving System Profiling Information with systeminfo.exe For ages, systeminfo.exe returned all profiling information for a computer, and could...

Resolving "HTTP 403" Errors in PowerShell Remoting If you use PowerShell remoting and get “HTTP 403” errors, one of the more obscure reasons for...

PowerShell 2+ Sometimes it becomes necessary to replace special characters like German “Umlauts” in order to normalize user names or...

PowerShell 5 The free Microsoft RSAT tools come with a full-blown ActiveDirectory module, but sometimes simple AD tasks can be mastered with just a...

Modifying a Specific Cell in an Excel Spreadsheet Using PowerShell If you need to change the content of a specific cell in an Excel spreadsheet,...

Windows maintains a log file named cbs.log in $env:windir\logs\cbs. It logs various pieces of information related to the Windows trusted installer,...

Adding New Items to an XML Document Efficiently If you need to add new items to an XML document that already contains such items, the easiest way is...

Bringing a Process Window to the Foreground with PowerShell PowerShell can use Add-Type to access internal Windows API functions. This way, it is...

By default, the Telnet client is disabled on Windows systems. You can easily enable it with a one liner in PowerShell, though. Just launch a...

By default, PowerShell remoting uses Kerberos authentication and works only in domain environments, and only when you specify computer names, not IP...

The Test-Connection cmdlet implements a simple ping to check whether a system responds to an ICMP request. Unfortunately, you cannot specify a...