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#PSTip PowerShell and the pre-configured user agent strings

Aleksandar Nikolic
1 Min To Read
20 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. The Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod cmdlets have the -UserAgent parameter, so you can specify a user agent string for the web request.

#PSTip Capture console screen

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
19 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. PowerShell has many logging capabilities but sometimes what you want is to capture what’s already written to the console.

Find a list of all IP addresses assigned to the local system

Ravikanth C
2 Min To Read
19 Nov, 2012
- Brainteaser

Hello everyone! The Brain Teaser series continues. First, we would like to announce the winner of the previous brain teaser. We got a few answers in which many of them have a command length of 8.

#PSTip Identifying the name of the PowerShell host

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
16 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. $host automatic variable contains the details of the PowerShell host. For example, information such as the name of the host, UI culture information, etc.

#PSTip Find PowerShell host process name

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
15 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Every PowerShell host implements the $pid automatic variable which refers to the process ID of the PowerShell host process.

#PSTip How to get the email address of the currently logged-on user

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
14 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

We’ll use the [adsisearcher] type accelerator. The [adsisearcher] type is just a shortcut to the System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher .NET class. PS> [adsisearcher].FullName System.

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