PowerShell

We all know the Net Use command that we can use to map network drives from the command line. Although we can use Net Use in PowerShell, there is a more powerful alternative, the New-PSDrive cmdlet. With the New-PSDrive cmdlet, … Read moreNew-PSDrive – How to use PowerShell Net Use alternative

When you need to add multiple users to an Active Directory group then using PowerShell is really your best option. Instead of looking up all the users manually, you can quickly add users to the group with PowerShell. Adding or … Read moreHow to Add User to Group in PowerShell with Add-ADGroupMember

When you need to search through a string or log files in Linux we can use the grep command. For PowerShell, we can use the grep equivalent Select-String. We can get pretty much the same results with this powerful cmdlet. … Read moreHow to use PowerShell Grep equivalent Select-String

To run an application, process, or script from within PowerShell you could simply enter the path to file. But this will start the process in the same environment and within the same context as your PowerShell session. When you want … Read moreHow to use Start Process in PowerShell

When you want to extract a part of a string in PowerShell we can use the Substring() method. This method allows us to specify the start and length of the substring that we want to extract from a string. In … Read moreHow-to use Substring in PowerShell

When running PowerShell scripts automatically you will need a way to log any errors or warnings that occur. One option is to create your own log function, but there is an easier way, the Start-Transcript cmdlet. The Start-Transcript cmdlet writes … Read moreHow to use Start-Transcript in PowerShell

The output of PowerShell commands is by default displayed in the terminal. But in some situations, it’s more useful to redirect the output to a file in PowerShell. For this, we are going to use the Out-File cmdlet. There are … Read moreHow to Output to File with PowerShell Out-File Cmdlet