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Most old VBS scripts can be easily translated to PowerShell. The key command in VBS is “CreateObject” which lets you access system libraries. PowerShell translates “CreateObject” to “New-Object -ComObject”, yet the object model and member names stay the same: This VBS...

Running PowerShell in WinPE Environments PowerShell can run inside WinPE environments. If you’d like to detect whether your PowerShell script runs inside a WinPE environment, you can simply check whether a special registry key exists: function Test-WinPE { return...

Starting with PowerShell 5, cmdlets like Extract-Archive can extract the content of ZIP files to disk. However, you can always extract only the entire archive. Extracting Specific Files Using .NET Methods If you’d rather like to extract individual files, you can...

PowerShell by default does not support the native cmd.exe command such as „dir“. Instead, it uses historic aliases called “dir” to point you to the closest PowerShell cmdlet: PS C:\> Get-Command -Name dir | ft -AutoSize CommandType Name Version Source -----------...

Use the PowerShell progress Bar Here is a simple example using the PowerShell progress bar. The code displays a progress bar counting down a break. Simply adjust the number of seconds you’d like to pause. You could use this example for displaying breaks in classes or...

Beginning with PowerShell 5, the PowerShell engine starts to log executed commands and scripts. By default, only commands considered potentially harmful are logged. When you enable verbose logging, though, all executed code from all users on a given machine are...

When you query an event log with PowerShell, by default you get back a text message with the logged information. For example, if you’d like to know who logged on to your machine, you could use code like this (Administrator privileges required): Get-EventLog -LogName...

If you are about to launch a lengthy automation script, why not turn off the display right away instead of waiting for the screen saver timeout to kick in? Turns off your Display Immediate Here is a simple function that turns off your display immediately. Just move...

In the previous tip we covered klist.exe and how it can be used to purge all Kerberos tickets for the current user so that new permissions will take effect immediately. Combining PowerShell with klist.exe for More Flexibility While PowerShell can run external apps...