Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to find the day of the week. How can I use Windows PowerShell to easily find the day of the week—for example, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday? Use the Get-Date cmdlet to return a DateTime object, and ten select the DayOfTheWeek property:...
Summary: Guest blogger, Gershon Levitz, talks about modifying DNS settings with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have a new guest blogger, Gershon Levitz. Gershon is a senior technical writer for Hyper-V at Microsoft. The floor is yours, Gershon... There are times when I need to change the DNS settings and u...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to choose random letters. How can I use Windows PowerShell to arrange five letters in a random order? Use the Get-Random cmdlet, specify the letters as input values, and then use the –count parameter to specify how many to choose: Get-Random -In...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell ISE code snippets to ease the burden of tricky-to-remember syntax. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today Jonathan Medd, Windows PowerShell MVP, is with us to share some Windows PowerShell goodness. Take it away, Jonathan… Often when I am teaching students who are new to Windows PowerShell, one of ...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to show the path to all your Windows PowerShell profiles. How can I use Windows PowerShell to see the path to all of my Windows PowerShell profiles— not only the current host or current user profile? Use the $profile automatic variable, pipe the results to...
