PowerShell Cmdlet Deep Dive: Set-WSManInstance Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving into a powerful yet sometimes overlooked cmdlet: Set-WSManInstance. According to Microsoft, Set-WSManInstance “modifies the management information that is related to a resource.” This cmdlet is part of the WS-Management framework, which is central to how machines (especially ones running Windows Remote…

Diving Into Get-WinEvent in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re taking a closer look at an extremely useful cmdlet for working with the Windows Event Log: Get-WinEvent. What is Get-WinEvent? The Get-WinEvent cmdlet is a flexible and powerful tool for retrieving events from local and remote event logs and event tracing log…

Exploring PowerShell Cmdlets: Format-Wide Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re taking a closer look at the Format-Wide cmdlet. According to Microsoft: “Formats objects as a wide table that displays only one property of each object.” This cmdlet is particularly handy when you want to quickly visualize a list of items using only one…

Using Select-String in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell blog! Today, we’re diving into a super useful cmdlet in the PowerShell toolkit: Select-String. According to Microsoft’s documentation, Select-String “Finds text in strings and files,” and it functions very much like grep in Unix-based systems. This makes it incredibly handy for searching through logs, configurations, or…

Understanding Get-Transaction in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! Today we’re diving deep into one of the more niche, but powerful tools in PowerShell’s toolbelt: the Get-Transaction cmdlet. The official Microsoft description for Get-Transaction is: Gets the current (active) transaction. Get-Transaction is a part of PowerShell’s support for transactional operations, mainly used with cmdlets…

Getting Interactive with Read-Host in PowerShell Welcome back to Wahmans PowerShell Blog! 🎉 Today, we’re diving into the Read-Host cmdlet, a simple yet powerful way to make your PowerShell scripts interactive. What is Read-Host? According to Microsoft’s official documentation: “Read-Host reads a line of input from the console.” In simpler terms, it allows you to…