In PowerShell v2, to list only files or only folders you had to do filtering yourself: Get-ChildItem $env:windir | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $true } Get-ChildItem $env:windir | Where-Object { $_.PSIsContainer -eq $false } In PowerShell v3, Get-ChildItem is smart enough to do that for you: Get-ChildItem $env:windir -File Get-ChildItem $env:windir –Directory
In PowerShell v3, Restart-Computer now has a number of useful new parameters. For example, you can restart a remote machine and wait for the reboot process to finish. -Wait: Halts the script until the machine has rebooted -Timeout: Seconds to wait for the machine to restart -For: Considers the computer to have restarted when the […]
The new PowerShell ISE script editor in PowerShell v3 lets you customize a lot of colors, so if a particular color does not show well on a projector, for example, simply change it. You can do that via GUI, but you can also do it programmatically. For example, from your profile script: $psISE.Options.RestoreDefaultConsoleTokenColors $psISE.Options.RestoreDefaultTokenColors $psISE.Options.RestoreDefaultXmlTokenColors […]
Depending on which company you talk to, there are varying demands for IT technical skills. But there is one common need that most IT organizations have: soft skills. This need is nothing new. As early as three decades ago corporate IT sought out liberal arts graduates to become business and systems analysts so they could […]
Here’s a quick and fast way of generating relative dates in any format: (Get-Date).AddDays(-1).ToString(‘yyyy-MM-dd’) This would return yesterday’s date in the format year-month-day. Remove the ToString() method if you want the relative date as a true DateTime object. This returns all error events from the System event log in the past 48 hours: Get-EventLog -LogName […]