If there's such thing as a secret sauce to PowerShell, the PowerShell team has added it to the types.ps1xml file. An often overlooked feature of Windows PowerShell is its extensibility. With a little ...

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PowerShell sometimes displays far more information than you can comfortably digest. Thankfully, there are ways to display only the information that really matters. One of the things I have always ...

Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) is a safe way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. While PowerShell does not offer built-in support for SFTP, you can add this functionality using ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

I have a dataset in 2 CSV files, example: id name site 1 bob wer 1 bob wer 2 jil fgas 3 jack vbcx 3 jack yhte I've looked at join-object http://blogs.msdn.com/b ...