Tips and Tricks

#PSTip How can I tell if I’m in a remote PowerShell session?

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
04 Jan, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. There are times where you’ll want to determine if the session your code is running in is a remoting session.

#PSTip Monitor file growth using WMI

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
03 Jan, 2013
- Tips and tricks
- Wmi

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When running long running scripts, we prefer to log the activities performed to a log file.

#PSTip Working with ISO files

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
02 Jan, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 and Windows 8 or above. Starting with Windows 8, mounting virtual hard disks or ISO files is not an issue anymore.

#PSTip How to clear the $error variable

Aleksandar Nikolic
2 Min To Read
01 Jan, 2013
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. PowerShell has the $error automatic variable. It contains a collection of the errors that occurred while the PowerShell engine has been running.

#PSTip List all cmdlets that accept a specific object type as input

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
31 Dec, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. At times, we find the need to list all cmdlets that accept a specific type of object as input.

#PSTip The easy way to get allowed values

Aleksandar Nikolic
1 Min To Read
28 Dec, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Tab completion and IntelliSense (in ISE) are greatly improved in PowerShell 3.0. They provide names of cmdlets, functions, scripts, workflows, parameters, object properties and methods, paths, files, …

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