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Weekend Scripter: Remove a Long Path File

December 27, 2015 Dec 27, 2015 12/27/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Boe Prox shows how to remove a file with a long path. Honorary Scripting Guy and Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP, Boe Prox, here today filling in for my good friend, the Scripting Guy. This is a continuation of this weekend series on working with PowerShell and PInvoke to do things that you normally couldn’t do natively. ...

PowerTip: Display Titles of Windows

December 26, 2015 Dec 26, 2015 12/26/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Boe Prox shows how to use Windows PowerShell to find the titles of windows.(image)  How can I use Windows PowerShell to find the titles of windows?(image)  Use Get-Process and display the title of the processes for windows by looking at            the MainWindowTitle property...

PowerTip: Update Module from PowerShell Gallery

November 29, 2015 Nov 29, 2015 11/29/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Boe Prox shows how to update a module from the Windows PowerShell Gallery.(image)  How can I update a module from the Windows PowerShell Gallery?(image)  Run the following command to check for an update to the module and install the update if one is found:Update-Module –Name PoshRSJob –VerboseVERBOSE: Checking ...