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Summary: Learn how to use a couple of functions to find quickly virtual machine network adapter information by using Windows PowerShell 3.0.  How can I find information about all network adapters used by all virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 with the Hyper-V role?  Pipe the results of Get-VM to the ...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, shows how to use functions from the DHCPServer module to create multiple IPv4 scopes. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. One thing that is great about Windows PowerShell is that, in general, it always behaves in a similar fashion. This means that techniques I learned when working with Active Di...

Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find files using the wrong year in the file name.  I have files that use the month, day, and year in their file names. I recently discovered that some years are not using the new year in their file names. How can I easily find these files?  Use the Get-ChildItem cmdlet to find the files in...

Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to create IPv4 scopes on a Windows Server 2012 DHCP server. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. As I expected, it is cold, wet, and rainy in Redmond this week. Oh well, the cool thing is getting together with my teammates. The neat thing about Microsoft is th...

Summary: Learn how to use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet to test the presence of a remote share.  How can I use Windows PowerShell to test for the presence of a share on a remote server?  Use the Test-Path cmdlet and supply a UNC path, as shown here. 13:55 C:\> Test-Path \\Server1\downloads True