Exploring the Set-Variable Cmdlet in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we are diving into a fundamental but powerful cmdlet in the PowerShell language: Set-Variable. According to Microsoft, the Set-Variable cmdlet “Sets the value of a variable. Creates the variable if one with the requested name does not exist.” While this might sound…

Exploring Copy-ItemProperty in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we are diving into a lesser-known but incredibly useful cmdlet in Windows PowerShell: Copy-ItemProperty. According to Microsoft, Copy-ItemProperty "copies a property and value from a specified location to another location." This can be quite handy when working with properties of items, especially in the…

Understanding Disable-RunspaceDebug in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into a cmdlet that can be quite useful when working with PowerShell debugging, particularly in more complex scripting environments or multithreaded setups: Disable-RunspaceDebug. Description: According to Microsoft, the Disable-RunspaceDebug cmdlet disables debugging on one or more runspaces, and releases any pending debugger…

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Remove-EventLog Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re exploring a powerful but sometimes overlooked cmdlet in your toolbox: Remove-EventLog. According to Microsoft, this cmdlet deletes an event log or unregisters an event source, making it essential when maintaining clean and organized event logs, especially on servers or development machines. Understanding…

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Write-EventLog Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we are exploring one of the lesser-known but extremely useful cmdlets in PowerShell: Write-EventLog. As per Microsoft’s definition, this cmdlet writes an event to an event log. Working with event logs is critical for auditing, logging, and troubleshooting in production environments. Write-EventLog allows…

Exploring PowerShell’s New-JobTrigger: Schedule Your Tasks with Precision Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today we’re diving into the incredibly useful New-JobTrigger cmdlet. This cmdlet is your key to automating scheduled tasks using PowerShell jobs. According to Microsoft’s documentation, the New-JobTrigger cmdlet creates a job trigger for a scheduled job. That means you can schedule…