Wahmans Powershell Blog

  • Out-GridView

    Exploring Out-GridView – An Interactive Table for PowerShell Output Welcome back to Wahman’s PowerShell Blog! Today, we’re going to explore an incredibly useful cmdlet that many overlook when automating scripts with PowerShell: Out-GridView. According to Microsoft, Out-GridView “sends output to an interactive table in a separate window.” In practical terms, it’s an excellent way to…

  • ConvertFrom-SddlString

    Understanding ConvertFrom-SddlString in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahman’s PowerShell Blog! Today, we’re diving into the ConvertFrom-SddlString cmdlet — a lesser-known but potent tool in the PowerShell arsenal. If you’ve ever worked with security descriptors in Windows, you may have encountered SDDL (Security Descriptor Definition Language). This cmdlet helps convert those complex SDDL strings into understandable…

  • ConvertFrom-Markdown

    ConvertFrom-Markdown: Parse Markdown Content into Structured Objects in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans Powershell blog! Today, we’re diving into the ConvertFrom-Markdown cmdlet — a cool feature in PowerShell that allows you to convert the contents of a Markdown-formatted string or file into a MarkdownInfo object. What does ConvertFrom-Markdown do? According to Microsoft: ConvertFrom-Markdown converts the…

  • Select-Object

    Using the PowerShell Cmdlet: Select-Object Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today we’re diving into a powerful and versatile cmdlet in PowerShell: Select-Object. According to Microsoft Docs, this cmdlet “selects objects or object properties.” But what does that really mean? In PowerShell, everything is an object. Whether you’re dealing with files, processes, or custom output,…

  • Get-UICulture

    Getting to Know Get-UICulture in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into a simple but very useful cmdlet: Get-UICulture. This cmdlet returns information about the current user interface (UI) culture settings of your operating system. This is especially useful when localizing scripts or customizing output for users in different regions/languages. What…

  • Export-Counter

    Exploring PowerShell’s Export-Counter Cmdlet Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into the Export-Counter cmdlet — a powerful tool that lets us export performance counter data to log files in PowerShell. This is incredibly useful for monitoring, diagnostics, and performance analysis of Windows systems. What is Export-Counter? The Export-Counter cmdlet collects performance counter…