Exploring Show-ControlPanelItem in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we’re diving into a useful and often overlooked cmdlet: Show-ControlPanelItem. This cmdlet, as described by Microsoft, is used to “open Control Panel items”. It’s part of the Microsoft.PowerShell.Management module and can be a handy tool in both end-user support scenarios and automation scripts where…

Getting to Know Stop-Service in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today we’re diving into a fundamental cmdlet in the PowerShell toolbox: Stop-Service. Whether you’re managing your Windows services manually or scripting complex operations, Stop-Service plays a vital role. According to Microsoft’s documentation, the Stop-Service cmdlet: Stops one or more running services. Let’s explore…

Exploring the PowerShell Cmdlet: Get-PSSession Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell blog! Today, we’re diving into a very useful cmdlet in the remote management world of PowerShell: Get-PSSession. According to Microsoft’s documentation, the Get-PSSession cmdlet “gets the PowerShell sessions on local and remote computers.” This means with this cmdlet you can enumerate existing session objects, whether…

Unlocking PowerShell: Mastering Export-BinaryMiLog Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we explore one of the lesser-known but highly useful cmdlets in PowerShell — Export-BinaryMiLog. This cmdlet allows you to create a binary encoded representation of an object or objects and stores them in a file. It’s particularly helpful when dealing with system diagnostics, performance…

Exploring Wait-Debugger in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we are diving into a very handy cmdlet for debugging your scripts: Wait-Debugger. This powerful tool can help you pause execution of your script and enter the debugger at just the right moment. What is Wait-Debugger? According to the Microsoft documentation, Wait-Debugger stops a…