Ravikanth CNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Before the release of Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, adding rules to Windows Firewall required a painful approach of using the firewall COM object.
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Shay LevyLet’s say you created a new TimeSpan object by using the Start parameter. PS> $ts = New-TimeSpan -Start 1/1/2014 PS> $ts Days : -324 Hours : -9 Minutes : -44 Seconds : -12 Milliseconds : -596 Ticks : -280286525960331 TotalDays : -324.
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Shay LevyNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. There are times when you need to validate the credentials of an Active Directory user account.
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Shay LevyNote: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. As system administrators, when troubleshooting an issue, we are often required to take a look at a certain knowledge base article from Microsoft.
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Ravikanth CNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. PowerShell background jobs are very powerful way to achieve parallelism when performing administrative tasks.
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Shay LevySometimes you need to prompt a user for input so you can base your script upon it. The Read-Host cmdlet is made just for that.
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