Summary: Learn how to change the color of Windows PowerShell errors. How can I change the color of Windows PowerShell errors in the Windows PowerShell console? Use $host.PrivateData and supply a new value for ErrorForegroundColor, for example: $Host.PrivateData.ErrorForegroundColor = 'white'
Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to add local users to local groups. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Creating local user objects and local group objects is fine, but to be useful, I need to be able to add users to groups. When working with local accounts, I need to use the ADSI type accelerator to facilitate the way things...
Summary: Easily use Windows PowerShell to reverse an array. How can I use Windows PowerShell to reverse an array? Pipe the array to the Sort-Object cmdlet and use the –Descending switch, for example: $a = 1,2,3,4,5 $b = $a | sort -Descending
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about creating local groups. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Creating a local group works exactly the same way as creating a local user account (see Use PowerShell to Create Local User Accounts). The process involves the following steps: Notes At this p...
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to create a hash table that holds all ASCII lowercase letters. How can I use Windows PowerShell to create a hash table that holds all lowercase ASCII letters? Create an empty ordered dictionary, and then use the add method to add the numbers 97-122 as key...
