Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Clear clipboard content

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
13 Nov, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Have you ever wondered how to clear the contents of the clipboard? There are certainly many ways to do that in PowerShell.

#PSTip Ejecting and closing CDROM drive–the PowerShell way!

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
12 Nov, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. I came across a project on Github (nothing related to PowerShell though) that provides a web-based UI for running system commands.

#PSTip How to combine trace log entries from all SharePoint farm servers using PowerShell

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
05 Nov, 2013
- Tips and tricks
- Share point

Note: This tip requires SharePoint 2010 or above. Whenever there’s a problem in SharePoint 2010 you are most likely using the ULS Viewer application to collect trace logs for further details about the problem in question or to monitor machines and …

#PSTip Get the size of a file on disk

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
31 Oct, 2013
- Tips and tricks
- Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In an earlier post, I wrote about compressing / uncompressing files using WMI.

#PSTip Working with Special Folders

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
30 Oct, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Windows provides access to many folders of the current user via the SpecialFolders collection.

#PSTip Compress and uncompress files and folders using WMI

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
28 Oct, 2013
- Tips and tricks
- Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In WMI, the CIM_DataFile and CIM_Directory classes have some very useful methods we can use.

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