Shay LevyConsider the following PowerShell 2.0 command: Get-Service -Name wuauserv -ComputerName Server1 | Stop-Service What do you think is happening here? You get the Windows Update service from Server1 and stop it, right?
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Bartek BielawskiI’m kind of guy who loves tiny little tricks. Tricks in PowerShell are almost like Easter eggs in the games of old times, very rewarding when you find them – but in PowerShell besides pure joy of being able to find something cool, you can move it to …
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Ravikanth CThe traditional or PowerShell 2.0 way of retrieving only files is: Get-ChildItem $env:windir | Where-Object { ! $_.PSIsContainer } The new parameter -File of the Get-ChildItem cmdlet simplifies the filtering:
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Shay LevyPowerShell equivalent of the ping.exe utility is the Test-Connection cmdlet. One of the hidden and less known capabilities of Test-Connection is the abitlity to ping a computer using another computer as the source.
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Ravikanth CIn Windows PowerShell 2.0, retrieving WMI associations and references required complex WMI queries. For example, if you wanted to get the IP address bound to a particular network adapter using WMI associations you would run:
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Aleksandar NikolicThe ConvertTo-Html cmdlet converts Microsoft .NET Framework objects into HTML that can be displayed in a Web browser. In the following example we pick up a few properties of process objects with name that contains the word ‘host’, sort the output by …
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