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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Shay LevyPowerShell’s Get-Credential cmdlet lets us create a secure credential object for a specified user name and password using a UI dialog:
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Ravikanth CNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. Recently, on Windows Server 2012, I was trying to determine, both locally and remotely, if a user belongs to a specific group.
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Shay LevyNote: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. When you assign the output of a command to a variable, you can’t know in advance how many objects are in the variable.
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