Tips and Tricks

#PSTip How to expand environment variable contained in a text file

Aleksandar Nikolic
1 Min To Read
07 Sep, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Let’s presume you have a text file that contains the following two lines: My current user profile is $env:USERPROFILE. The system folder is $env:windir\System32.

#PSTip Get all writeable properties of a WMI class

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
06 Sep, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Not all WMI class properties can be modified. Many of these properties are read-only. Take a look at the properties and Win32_ComputerSystem, for example.

#PSTip Optimizing WMI object retrieval

Ravikanth C
1 Min To Read
05 Sep, 2012
- Tips and tricks

Whenever we use WMI cmdlets to query either local or remote machines, we need to keep the following points in mind:

#PSTip Another way to modify WMI instance properties

Shay Levy
1 Min To Read
04 Sep, 2012
- Tips and tricks

In the previous tip we showed you how to modify WMI object properties using Get-WmiObject cmdlet and the Put method. Today I want to show you another streamlined way to do the same using the Set-WmiInstance cmdlet.

#PSTip Modifying WMI Object properties using Get-WmiObject cmdlet

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

Get-WmiObject and object modification! Sounds contradictory? Not really. That is the beauty of PowerShell and its object-based nature. Let us see an example to understand this.

#PSTip Another way to get a function definiton

Aleksandar Nikolic
2 Min To Read
31 Aug, 2012
- Tips and tricks

In the previous tip, we’ve showed you how to get a function definition using cool and unusual technique. Can we use the Get-Command cmdlet to get the same result?

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