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Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to display inbound firewall rules. How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the enabled inbound firewall rules for my Windows 8.1 laptop? Use the Show-NetFirewallRule function, filter on the Enabled and the Direction properties, and select the display name for...

Summary : Guest blogger, Ian Farr, talks about using Windows PowerShell to back up Group Policy Objects. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today I am happy to welcome back a recent new guest blogger, Ian Farr. Here is what Ian had to say about himself: I started out writing UNIX shell...

Summary : Guest blogger, Rohn Edwards, discusses creating a Windows PowerShell proxy function to display registry key time stamps. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Happy New Year to you all. Guest blogger, Rohn Edwards, is back with us today to continue his series about retrieving registry...

Summary : Guest blogger, Rohn Edwards, discusses reusing code that obtains the last-modified time stamp from the registry. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today is the last day of the year, but don’t despair. We are here to share some Windows PowerShell goodies with you. Welcome...

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to find registry access. How can I use Windows PowerShell to get the ACL for a registry key? Use the Get-ACL cmdlet on a key in a Windows PowerShell registry drive. The following example shows access to the HKLM\Software\Microsoft key : Get-acl HKLM:\SOFTWARE...

Summary : Guest blogger, Rohn Edwards, talks about using Windows PowerShell to access the last-modified time stamp in the registry. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Rohn Edwards. Rohn is one of the cofounders of the Mississippi PowerShell User Group. I’m...

Summary : Use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to create a hash table. How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a hash table if do not remember the special syntax? Use the ConvertFrom-StringData cmdlet, and put each key-value pair on its own line. (You can perform this on a single line by using backtick...

Summary : Microsoft PFE and guest blogger, Chris Wu, talks about working with hash tables. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger, Chris Wu … Admittedly, hash tables didn’t catch my attention when I started using Windows PowerShell, but over time it...

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to make a plain text entry into a secure password. Is there a way I can use Windows PowerShell and my working script to make a secure string password without using Read-Host ? Use the ConvertTo-SecureString cmdlet: $MyBoringPassword=”OhThisCouldBeSecure...

Summary : Dr. Scripto teaches a non-scripting Administrator to easily create users in Active Directory. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. Returning once again to delight us all with a little holiday merriment is Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney. Other than his habit of occasionally singing...

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell 4.0 to debug a workflow. How do I set a breakpoint in a Windows PowerShell script workflow? Add the workflow to a script and use Set-PSBreakpoint to set a line breakpoint in the workflow: Set-PSBreakpoint -Script C:\Test-MyWorkflow1.ps1 -Line 12 ID Script...

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to display your routing table. How can I use Windows PowerShell to display the routing table on my Windows 8.1 laptop? Use the Get-NetRoute function.

Summary : Use Windows PowerShell to display date, time, and hour in 24-hour format. How can I use Windows PowerShell to get the hour of the day in 24-hour format? Use the Get-Date cmdlet and specify the “%H” pattern to the UFormat parameter ( H is case sensitive): get-date -UFormat...

Summary: Find all Windows PowerShell drives that are rooted in the Windows registry. How can I find all of my Windows PowerShell registry drives? Use the Get-PSDrive cmdlet and specify a provider of registry, as shown here. Get-PSDrive -PSProvider registry

Summary: Learn how to use a single cmdlet to identify the existence of Hyper-V virtual switches. How can I use Windows PowerShell 3.0 on Windows 8 to identify Hyper-V virtual switches? Use the Get-VMSwitch cmdlet from the Hyper-V module.

Summary : Rename a computer by using Windows PowerShell 3.0. How can you easily rename a computer by using Windows PowerShell 3.0? Use the Rename-Computer cmdlet.

Summary : Learn how to use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to locate modern apps installed on a computer running Windows 8. How can you use Windows PowerShell 3.0 to find out which modern apps are installed on a computer running Windows 8? Use the Get-AppxPackage cmdlet: Get-AppxPackage

Summary : Learn how to create a strongly typed array. I want to create a strongly typed array of system.diagnostics.processes and store it in a variable called $a . How can I do this? Use a command such as: [diagnostics.process[]]$a=get-process

Summary : Learn three ways to use Windows PowerShell to reset the computer secure channel. Hey, Scripting Guy! We have a problem with the computers in our computer classroom. We set up this classroom to teach new hires how to use our mission critical application. We are, however, not hiring as many...

Summary: Learn how to convert easily a semicolon delimited file into a CSV file using Windows PowerShell. Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a problem at work, and I hope you can help. We have an application that writes one log file every four hours. These log files are formatted with semicolons, which...

Summary : Scripting Wife learns how to use Windows PowerShell to easily search a collection of files for phone numbers. Spring has nearly sprung in Charlotte, North Carolina. The weather seems to alternate between absolutely perfect to a little cool with rain. Today, at least so far this morning,...

Summary : The Scripting Wife learns how to use a regular expression pattern to look for phone numbers in text files. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, here. I am looking over some of the slide decks from the Columbia, South Carolina SQL Saturday #70 event. There were a couple of really good Windows...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to connect to two Group Policy objects (GPOs) in Active Directory and make an offline copy of the GPOs using Windows PowerShell 2.0 so that I can compare the two objects. I know I can do this using the Group Policy Management Console, but I have several hundred GPOs...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to work with Group Policy Objects (GPOs) by using a Windows PowerShell script. I understand there are new Group Policy cmdlets in Windows 7, but when I use the Get-Command cmdlet, I do not see any cmdlets. Is this a Release-to-Web (RTW) feature, or did it not make the cut for...

Note : We are no longer accepting entries for this event. See the due dates page for a list of all event due dates. About This Event Division Advanced Date of Event May 3, 2010 Due Date May 10, 2010 Event Scenario You have a group of files...