bartsp34ks - About IT stuff…

If you need a credential object, you can use Get-Credential to ask for credentials and use them in your script. But what if your only need a password? For example, when you need a password during installation of software. You’ll need a password in plain text most of the times. If you use Read-Host the […]

Do you ever write a function with so many parameters that it reaches the right end of your screen? In that case, putting all parameters in 1 object might be a usefull replacement, right? Powershell supports a method to achieve exactly that! It is called splatting. We create a PowerShell hastable and put all parameters in […]

I hope the description was clear enough to understand what i mean 🙂 As a programmer or “scripter” you really want to copy/paste as less as possible and keep the code clean. This reduces the chance of failures/bugs and much more readable. For this reason you have to use functions when code is used more than […]

Unfortunatly I did not find a way to colorize a table without using Write-Host. This would be very awesome and would safe a lot of code. The problem with outputting tekst to the console with Write-Host is that you can’t use the automatic width of the columns. To fix that I calculated the width of […]

If you want to find items in an array using a single string, you can use wildcards to match that item. Example:

If you use RoboCopy in your PowerShell script, you might want to know if everything went well. Besides the log file, you can check the Exit Code as well.

If you need the size of an folder in MB’s. You can use below script to obtain this information. The $FolderSize variable will return the folder size in the following format: 77,84 MB

What if you want to execute Exchange commands/Cmdlets from a script? Or you just hate the ugly Exchange management shell (like me) and want to use the regular (blue) PowerShell window?

What if you want to check for open ports on a server, but you don’t have telnet installed on your management server? Yes! Use PowerShell! But how?

Office 2013 gives you the possibility to add multiple OneDrive accounts. Which is awesome! But by default it gives your OneDrive account the name “OneDrive – Personal”.