Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Get last login date for local account

Jaap Brasser
2 Min To Read
05 Jun, 2015
- Tips and tricks

Using the ADSI type accelerator in combination with WinNT provider we can retrieve the last logon time for a local account from the local SAM account database:

#PSTip Access remote registry using PowerShell

Jaap Brasser
1 Min To Read
04 Jun, 2015
- Tips and tricks

Using the Microsoft.Win32.Registry class it is possible to access both–the local registry and, more importantly, the registry of a remote system.

#PSTip Validate if an Active Directory Organizational Unit exists or not

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
29 May, 2015
- Tips and tricks

For some recent scripting work, I needed to find if an AD OU existed or not from a computer that is not domain-joined.

PSTip: Connect to Azure Virtual Machines without being prompted for credentials

Jaap Brasser
1 Min To Read
16 Apr, 2015
- Tips and tricks

When working with Azure it can be useful to quickly connect to a number of Azure VMs. Unfortunately this might result in having to enter your password multiple times.

PSTip: Change a drive letter using Win32_Volume class

Jaap Brasser
1 Min To Read
15 Apr, 2015
- Tips and tricks

Changing a drive letter of a removable drive or DVD drive is an easy task with Windows PowerShell. Using the Win32_Volume class and the Set-CimInstance cmdlet a drive letter can be reassigned.

PSTip: Use Shell.Application to display extended file attributes

Jaap Brasser
3 Min To Read
13 Apr, 2015
- Tips and tricks

In Windows files can have a lot of additional file attributes that are not shown when using the Get-ChildItem cmdlet. To reveal these the Shell.

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