PowerShell can test user account passwords for you. This works both for local and domain accounts. Here is a sample function called Test-Password:
function Test-Password { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory)] [string] $Domain, [Parameter(Mandatory)] [string] $Use…
Windows operating systems can be uniquely identified by a so-called 4K-Hash: this is a special hash string that is 4000 bytes in size. You can use this hash for example with “Windows Autopilot” to add physical and virtual machines.
The 4K Hash is just one piece of information required to…
If your laptop battery is going low too soon, or you’d like to investigate related issues, there is a simple way to generate an extensive battery charging report. It shows exactly when your battery was charged, what its capacity is, and how long it took to deplete.
Here is the code to create a…
The PowerShell Gallery provides easy access to additional PowerShell commands. For example, you can download and install the command extension for SharePoint and use PowerShell to automate your SharePoint sites:
Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -Scope CurrentUser -Force
To manage and automate your assets in the Azure cloud, you can easily install a free PowerShell module which comes with a wealth of new PowerShell commands:
if ($PSVersionTable.PSEdition -eq 'Desktop' -and (Get-Module -Name AzureRM -ListAvailable)) { Write-Warning 'AzureRM and Az modules…
In the previous tip we illustrated how you can dump all Wi-Fi profile names using netsh.exe. Typically, profile names and SSIDs are identical. However, if you are interested in the true Wi-Fi SSID names, you can query these directly by dumping individual profiles and using a wildcard for the profile…
In the previous tip we used netsh.exe to dump Wi-Fi profiles. Let’s take it a step further and expose the cached passwords:
# get cleartext password for each profile Foreach ($profile in $profiles) { $password = (@(netsh wlan show profile name="$profile" key=clear) -like '…
PowerShell is not limited to cmdlets and can run executables. For example, there is no built-in cmdlet to list the existing Wi-Fi profiles, but netsh.exe can provide the information:
PS> netsh wlan show profiles
Use Select-String to identify only output lines that match the pattern (a colon with…
PowerShell writes output information to six different streams, and only the output stream is assigned to variables:
function Invoke-Test { "Regular Output" Write-Host "You always see me!" Write-Information "Info" Write-Warning "Warning" Write-Error "Error…
Write-Host is an extremely useful cmdlet to output information to a user because this output cannot be discarded:
function Invoke-Test { "Regular Output" Write-Host "You always see me!" } # both show Invoke-Test # Write-Host still shows $result = Invoke-Test
Beginning in PowerShell…