Tips and Tricks

#PSTip Enumerating available time zones

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

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. Some applications or scripts might require the presence of a specific time zone on the system to be able to execute the actions defined by the application.

#PSTip How to quickly open output file

Aleksandar Nikolic
2 Min To Read
28 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When you work interactively with PowerShell, you don’t want to type too much.

#PSTip Where are my About help topics for PowerShell workflows and scheduled jobs?

Aleksandar Nikolic
2 Min To Read
27 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. You’ve updated your PowerShell help using the Update-Help cmdlet and you are pretty sure that you’ve got help files for PSWorkflow and PSScheduledJob modules as well.

Better Restart-Computer cmdlet in PowerShell 3.0

Vinith Menon
5 Min To Read
27 Nov, 2012
- How to
- Tips and tricks

As the name suggests the Restart-Computer cmdlet helps in restarting the operating system on the local and remote computers. Compared to earlier version of Restart-Computer in PowerShell 2.

#PSTip Duplicating folder structures

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
26 Nov, 2012
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Sometimes you need to create a copy of an exiting directory structure without copying the files, and you also want to include empty folders if they exist.

#PSTip Create an empty folder structure

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

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. In an earlier tip, you saw how an empty file of a specified size can be created.

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