Tired of using the boring default fonts in PowerShell? There are more monospaced fonts on your system. You just need to allow the console to use them. Here’s how: $key = ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont’ Set-ItemProperty -Path $key -Name ‘0’ -Value ‘Lucida Console’ Set-ItemProperty -Path $key -Name ’00’ -Value ‘Courier New’ Set-ItemProperty -Path $key -Name ‘000’ -Value […]
If your machine is connected to the Internet more than once, let’s say cabled and wireless at the same time, which connection is used? Here’s a function that tells you: function test-ipmetric { Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapter -Filter “AdapterType=’Ethernet 802.3′” | ForEach-Object { $_.GetRelated(‘Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration’) } | Select-Object Description, Index, IPEnabled, IPConnectionMetric }
You might know the more.com tool: when you pipe output to more.com, the output is displayed page by page: PS> Get-EventLog -LogName System | more However, more can be dangerous as you see here. You will not get any results for a long time, and your CPU load increases. more.com first collects all results before […]
Here is a sample that uses the live.com freemailer (formally called Hotmail) which does require a secure connection: PS> Send-MailMessage -Body ‘My mail message can contain special characters: äöüß’ -From youraccountname@hotmail.com -to someone@somewhere.com -Credential youraccountname@hotmail.com -SmtpServer smtp.live.com -Subject ‘Sending Mail from PowerShell’ -Encoding UTF8 -UseSsl Note that PowerShell v3 Send-MailMessage accepts UTF8 directly so you […]
To find out when a system restarted and why, use the below code to extract the relevant information from the System event log: Get-EventLog -LogName System -ComputerName Server1 | where {$_.EventId -eq 1074} | ForEach-Object { $rv = New-Object PSObject | Select-Object Date, User, Action, Process, Reason, ReasonCode, Comment, Message if ($_.ReplacementStrings[4]) { $rv.Date = […]