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#PSTip Convert PowerShell Data File to an Object
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 4.0 or later. Before PowerShell 4.0, if we had to convert the hash table in a PSD1 file into an object representation, we either used…
#PSTip Using PowerShell runspaces to find unassigned IPv4 addresses
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. We often come across infrastructure configuration scenarios where we need to find a free IP address before assigning the same to a…
#PSTip Validate Active Directory Credentials
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 2.0 or later. PowerShell let’s you tap into .NET Framework and do all kind of poking. Recently, while reading up this article on CodeProject came…
#PSTip Find variables in a script
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 3.0 or later. I had recently completed writing a PowerShell module for an internal project. Within this module, I ended up using variables in the…
#PSTip Validate if an Active Directory Organizational Unit exists or not
For some recent scripting work, I needed to find if an AD OU existed or not from a computer that is not domain-joined. I knew that the System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry class can…
#PSTip Editing remote file in PowerShell ISE
Note: This tip requires PowerShell 5.0 or later. If you have ever wondered how you can edit files on a remote system using Windows PowerShell, it is now possible with…
