This post explains how we can use the PowerShell substring method to extract and match part of a string. Before we continue, it’s important to remember that the first index of a string starts at position 0. So in the … Continue reading
There comes a time when we want to read or write an Active Directory attribute, yet we don’t know the name of the attribute we’re looking for! This handy script will list all user and computer LDAP attributes using PowerShell … Continue reading
In this post we provide a quick example of how we can use PowerShell to retrieve all Windows updates and patches. Get-HotFix Not Returning All Installed KBs The first thought that springs to mind is simply to run Get-Hotfix. However … Continue reading
Here we explain how to determine and check the PowerShell version. Why Check the PowerShell Version? It’s important to know which version of PowerShell an endpoint is running since some cmdlets are only supported in specific versions of PowerShell. And … Continue reading
This post contains an example of how we can use PowerShell to display an advanced toast notification. In this notification we will be adding a custom icon and a hero image. To do this we’ll initially use the ToastImageAndText02 XML … Continue reading
This post contains an example of how we can use PowerShell to display a basic toast notification. If you would like more advanced features, see use PowerShell to display an advanced toast notification. When we construct a toast notification, we … Continue reading
This blog provides an example of how we can implement text-to-speech using PowerShell and the speech synthesizer. Text-to-Speech using PowerShell I remember the early days of making a computer convert text to speech in a robotic voice – there was … Continue reading
This is a quick example of how we can use PowerShell to extract Azure Active Directory device status from dsregcmd. Sometimes we need to run a script on a device to troubleshoot devices by using the dsregcmd command, or indeed … Continue reading
Here we provide an example of how we can use PowerShell to set Windows 10 desktop wallpaper based on screen resolution. We essentially add supported screen resolutions and associated images to a hashtable called wallpaperImages (you need to add your … Continue reading
This blog provides a simple example of using PowerShell select-string to match regular expressions. Select-string and regular expressions come in really useful when we want to extract specific data from a string that matches a particular pattern. Consider this URL: … Continue reading