Tips and Tricks

#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.

#PSTip Get the contents of a file in one string

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

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or above. The Get-Content cmdlet returns the contents of a file as an array of strings delimited by a newline character.

#PSTip A difference between the –replace operator and String.Replace method

Jakub Jareš
2 Min To Read
12 Nov, 2012
- Brainteaser
- Tips and tricks

The -replace operator takes a regular expression (regex) replacement rule as input and replaces every match with the replacement string. The operator itself is used as shown in the following schema: <input string> -replace <replacement …

#PSTip Start PowerShell as a different user with elevated privileges

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

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. This command is useful when you want to perform some tests or if you work in an environment where you use the standard and admin user accounts.

#PSTip Get all WMI classes with methods

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

Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or above. When working with WMI and PowerShell, I often find it necessary to quickly generate a list of methods available in a WMI class.

#PSTip Grouping objects

Shay Levy
2 Min To Read
07 Nov, 2012
- Tips and tricks

The Group-Object cmdlet lets you group objects based on the value of a specified property. For example: 1 2 3 4 5 PS> Get-Service | Group-Object -Property Status Count Name Group ----- ---- ----- 93 Stopped {AeLookupSvc, AllUserInstallAgent, …

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