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Using Get-CimInstance as an Alternative to Get-WmiObject PowerShell 3.0 added an alternative to Get-WmiObject: Get-CimInstance seems to work very...

PowerShell has a built-in support to wait until a process or many processes end: simply use Wait-Process. Understanding Data Marts and Dimensional...

Updating Active Directory User Information with PowerShell If you have installed the free RSAT tools from Microsoft, you can use PowerShell to...

Whenever you add delegation rights to an AD object (i.e. allow a user to manage the members of an organizational unit), you really invoke a change...

Removing Accidental Deletion Protection By default, AD objects are protected from accidental deletion. To remove this protection for all objects in...

In a previous tip you have seen that the PowerShell console supports all characters available in a TrueType font. You just need to convert the...

Did you know that console output can contain special icons like checkmarks? All you need to do is set the console to a TrueType font like...

You may know that each string object has a method called Trim() that trims away whitespace both from the beginning and end of a string: $text = '...

Understanding Control Flow: break, continue, return, and exit Do you know off-hand what "break", "continue", "return", and "exit" do? These are...

Get-ItemProperty can easily read registry values, but you do not get back any information about the registry value type. Get-ItemProperty -Path...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Sometimes it is important to know just how long a command takes. For example, to monitor web site response times, you could...

PowerShell 3.0 and later Out-GridView is a very useful cmdlet to output results to an extra window. Unlike outputting to the console, Out-GridView...