A few months ago, I submitted a proposal for including a Join-Object cmdlet to the standard PowerShell equipment #14994. Besides complexer joins based on a related property, the idea is to also be able to do a side-by-side join (by omiting the -On parameter). Taken this Paste command in Linux as an example: $State=”Arunachal Pradesh”, … Read more
Note: On 15 Nov 2021 a bug was fixed in the code below in order to make it work properly with advanced scripts – see this answer for details. The closest you can get to a robust, cross-platform self-elevating script solution that supports: both positional (unnamed) and named arguments while preserving type fidelity within the … Read more
Note about Azure AD cmdlets This answer is crafted around the Active Directory cmdlets installed and available from Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). However, the Azure AD cmdlets make use of Microsoft Graph (OData v4.0 specification) to run queries against Azure AD while the RSAT cmdlets[1] rely on an implementation of the PowerShell Expression Engine … Read more
If you want CPU percentage, you can use Get-Counter to get the performance counter and Get-Counter can be run for all processes. So, to list processes that use greater than say 5% of CPU use: (Get-Counter ‘\Process(*)\% Processor Time’).CounterSamples | Where-Object {$_.CookedValue -gt 5} This will list the processes that was using >5% of CPU … Read more
I’m not a fan of embedding my credentials into a script (which a few other example here do) and additionally, you generally can’t do this from something like Packer or some other system/configuration automation or in a cloud provider with an pseudo-randomly generated password. Plus, generally, I feel hardcoding your credentials into a script or … Read more
Guenther Schmitz’ answer is effective, but it’s worth explaining why: Your Out-File -FilePath C:Filepath is a stand-alone command that receives no input. An Out-File call with no input simply creates an empty file (0 bytes). In order for cmdlets such as Out-File to receive input from (an)other command(s) (represented as … below), you must use … Read more
Enclose your PowerShell code in, powershell -Command “& {}” Remember to separate all statements with ; and to enclose your ” with a quoted string, i.e by using “” powershell -Command “& {$BIOS= Get-WmiObject -computername “”BAHRIATSG2-PC\”” -Namespace root/hp/instrumentedBIOS -Class HP_BIOSSettingInterface; $BIOS.SetBIOSSetting(‘Setup Password’,'<utf-16/>TheBIOSPassword’,'<utf-16/>’)}”
Use built-in SchTasks.exe for a supported way to create processes on a remote system. This interfaces with the built-in Task Scheduler service and does not require PsExec.exe. To create a task on a remote machine (in this example running as SYSTEM): schtasks.exe /create /F /S COMPUTERNAME /RU “NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM” /RL HIGHEST /SC ONSTART /TN “RemoteProcess” … Read more
Note: As for why you should never use Write-Host to output data, see this answer. In PSv5+: $result = Test-Cluster 6>&1 Since version 5, Write-Host writes to the newly introduced information stream, whose number is 6. 6>&1 redirects that stream to the success output stream (number 1), so that it too can be captured in … Read more
Find advanced function Out-HostColored below, to which you can pipe any command and color its output selectively based on regular expressions / literal substrings. Applied to your case, with simulated input: @’ Enabled : True Locked : False Display Name : foo Name : bar Last Name : baz Mail : [email protected] Last Logon : … Read more