Exploring Dot-Sourcing in PowerShell -- Microsoft Certified ...
Feb 2, 2017 · Dot-sourcing is a concept in PowerShell that allows you to reference code defined in one script in a separate one. This is useful when you're working on a project with multiple scripts and might have functions specified in one script (s) and the code to call those functions in another. Other than building a module, dot-sourcing is a good way to ...
How To Display GUI Message Boxes in PowerShell
Jun 9, 2016 · For example, in its simplest form, you can use the Show () method to display a simple message. [System.Windows.MessageBox]::Show('Hello') Figure 1. You'll notice when the message box comes up, it will halt your console input until it's closed. When you click OK, the console will then show you what the Show () method returned, which, in this ...
How To Replace Text in a File with PowerShell
Aug 8, 2018 · To perform a find/replace in a text file, it's much easier to return the contents via single string. We'll add the Raw parameter to do that. PS C:\> Get-Content -path C:\ReplaceDemo.txt -Raw. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Next, we'll have to figure out a way to find and replace the string "brown" in memory.
Installing a Module from the PowerShell Gallery
Oct 11, 2018 · For the longest time, the open source community had a ubiquitous concept called "public package repositories." Using utilities such as rpm, yum et al. is commonplace, but Microsoft never had the same -- until the PowerShell Gallery.. The PowerShell Gallery was introduced to be a repository of packages from PowerShell modules and software packages where the community could share packages with ...
How To Quickly Test a SQL Connection with PowerShell
Dec 10, 2018 · Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to ensure your script can successfully connect to the database.
Building a Wait-Action Function in PowerShell
Mar 16, 2018 · Creating a Wait-Action function in PowerShell consists of the code to check the status of the task, a while loop and a timer. Using the while loop, we'll continually run the code to check the status of the task; and to be sure we don't get stuck in an infinite loop, we'll set a timer ahead of time and ensure the process times out after a fixed ...
Getting Started with Word Using PowerShell -- Microsoft Certified ...
May 24, 2018 · About the Author. Boe Prox is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell and a Senior Windows System Administrator. He has worked in the IT field since 2003, and he supports a variety of different platforms.
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Apr 6, 2018 · We will begin searching for our data -- in this case, it is "Nebraska" -- using the Cells.Find () method and supplying the search string as the method parameter. If it does find data, it will be available to view as an object and also will …
Creating Volume Shadow Copies in PowerShell -- Microsoft …
Dec 7, 2015 · To do this, right-click on the volume and go to Properties and then click on the Shadow Copies tab. This will bring you to a window where you can then click on Enable to create the first snapshot. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. You are then presented with a confirmation box where you can then click Yes. That's it!
How To Do Math with PowerShell -- Microsoft Certified …
Jan 10, 2018 · Now we can use Get-Rectangle and supply it a couple of parameters to calculate either the area given the length and width, or the length with the area and width values. Get-Rectangle -Length 10 -Width 5. Get-Rectangle -Width 5 -Area 50. Using PowerShell to work math problems and some complex equations can be done easily!