I had a need to manipulate some text files to get the clean data the other day and found it’s extremely easy to deal with text files with PowerShell. To open a text file and get the content of it, Get-Content path\filename.txt But I can use ForEach cycle to read each line the same time. foreach ($eachline in Get-Content path\filename.txt) […]
After watching a webinar recently where the presenter was using Visual Studio Code to run PowerShell codes he prepared for the demo, it strikes me that maybe it’s time to ditch PowerShell ISE and start using Visual Studio Code for all my coding needs. Setting up VS Code for PowerShell turns out super easy. First, download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com […]
We always use command lines like PING to get the IP address assigned to a specific domain DNS. For example, to get the IP address of google.com, we use: ping google.com As you can see, this only returns one of IP addresses assigned to google.com. To get the full list of IP addresses associated with google.com, you need to use […]
Other than open every single installed printer to print test pages, here is a much better way that you can do it all at once. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage If you only want to certain printers, use the -Filter switch. Get-CimInstance Win32_Printer -Filter “Name LIKE ‘*name*’ | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName PrintTestPage You can even use Get-Printer cmdlet to pick […]
Instead of looking for a tool, there is a very quick and easy way that lets me ping a wild range of IPs to find out which IPs are free and which ones have been taken, using the PowerShell built-in cmdlet Test-Connection. And here is how: Copy the code over to PowerShell ISE console, change the IP info and hit […]
When retrieving data from the event log, there is a set of data stored in a data field called ReplacementStrings that is very useful to the certain types of log entries. It’s structured as a string array, therefore, can be retrieved if you know the data structure. The problem is, every type of event ID has different string array structure. […]
If a user account gets locked out, I can follow these tips to find out why and when it happened. But how can I check and gather lockout info along with the bad password attempts info of all users across the entire AD domain? Asking help from PowerShell is my answer. There are two places where we can gather this […]
To get the IP addresses of the remote desktop sessions behind a Remote Desktop Gateway, you need to open RD Gateway Manager, go to Monitoring section and check each of the connected sessions to find their IP addresses. If you want to look further for their geolocations as well, you would search the IP address in one of the geolocation […]