PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Set-Alias Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today we’re going to take a look at a simple but highly effective cmdlet that can speed up your scripts and make your daily PowerShell usage more efficient: Set-Alias. Description from Microsoft: Creates or changes an alias for a cmdlet or other command in…

Exploring Get-Member in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into one of the most versatile and insightful cmdlets in the PowerShell universe: Get-Member. According to Microsoft: Get-Member: Gets the properties and methods of objects. But what does that actually mean for us PowerShell users? Simply put, Get-Member lets you inspect PowerShell…

Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell blog! 👋 Today we’re diving into the ConvertTo-CliXml cmdlet — a lesser-known, but super useful PowerShell tool that can help serialize your objects in a structured and portable format. What is ConvertTo-CliXml? ConvertTo-CliXml is a built-in cmdlet in PowerShell that converts objects into a serialized XML format (CliXml), which can…

Exploring Export-Alias in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into an often overlooked but surprisingly useful cmdlet: Export-Alias. As the name suggests, Export-Alias allows you to export the currently defined aliases in your session to a file. Aliases in PowerShell are shorthand or alternate names for cmdlets, functions, scripts, and executables….

PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Invoke-WSManAction Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today, we’re diving into a powerful, yet often underutilized cmdlet: Invoke-WSManAction. This cmdlet is part of the PowerShell Remoting framework and allows you to invoke actions on WS-Management resources remotely. It’s particularly useful when working with systems that expose management capabilities via the WS-Man…

Understanding the Power of Get-Acl in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today we’re diving into one of those cmdlets that every PowerShell user should be familiar with: Get-Acl. If you’re wondering what Get-Acl does, let me quote Microsoft: Get-Acl gets the security descriptor for a resource, such as a file or registry key….