Archive for the ‘Powershell’ Category

1 Can you find any cmdlets capable of converting other cmdlets’ output into HTML? ConvertTo-Html 2 Are there any cmdlets that can redirect output into a file, or to a printer? Out-File  & Out-Printer 3 How many cmdlets are available for working with processes? Get-Process                       Cmdlet    Gets the processes that are running on the local [...]

PowerShell in a month of Lunches

Posted: 23rd September 2012 by neil in Powershell

One of the things on my to do list is to learn PowerShell to a decent enough level where i am comfortable with it to perform my day to day duties.  Me and scripting have never really got on very well even though i am aware of its usefulness and benefits. Throughout the years i [...]

Recently I wanted to verify that I had a certain hotfix installed on my server. I thought i could see if there was a nice and easy way in Powershell to do this and there was. The cmdlet get-hotfix will retrieve the information you need. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-HotFix Source        Description      HotFixID      InstalledBy          InstalledOn ——        ———–      [...]