#PSTip How to get only files – the PowerShell 3.0 way!
The traditional or PowerShell 2.0 way of retrieving only files is: Get-ChildItem $env:windir | Where-Object { ! $_.PSIsContainer } The new parameter -File of the Get-ChildItem cmdlet simplifies the...
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#PSTip Adding extended types – the PowerShell 3.0 way!
PowerShell 3.0 introduced important changes to the Update-TypeData cmdlet which includes specifying the dynamic type data. Using these new features of Update-TypeData cmdlet, we can add extended types...
View Article#PSTip Modifying WMI Object properties using Get-WmiObject cmdlet
Get-WmiObject and object modification! Sounds contradictory? Not really. That is the beauty of PowerShell and its object-based nature. Let us see an example to understand this. $vol = Get-WmiObject...
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#PSTip Optimizing WMI object retrieval
Whenever we use WMI cmdlets to query either local or remote machines, we need to keep the following points in mind: Don’t ever pipe the WMI objects to Where-Object cmdlet to filter the WMI output...
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#PSTip Get all writeable properties of a WMI class
Not all WMI class properties can be modified. Many of these properties are read-only. Take a look at the properties and Win32_ComputerSystem, for example. Now, how do we retrieve properties of a WMI...
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