Tag Archives: Function

Export and Import Hash Tables

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Jeffery Hicks

I use hash tables quite a bit and with the impending arrival of PowerShell 3.0 I expect even more so. PowerShell v3 allows you to define a hash table of default parameter values. I’m not going to to cover that … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun: Output to 2 Places in 1

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Jeffery Hicks

Today’s Friday Fun comes out of a short exchange I had yesterday with Hal Rottenberg on Google Plus. We were playing around with piping a PowerShell command to Clip.exe which dumps the output to the Windows Clipboard. I got to … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun – A Christmas Prompt

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

Over the last few weeks I’ve read about other people’s PowerShell prompts and offered a few suggestions of my own. This week’s Friday Fun creates colorful holiday prompt that counts down the number of days until Christmas.

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Domain Controller PowerShell Prompt

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

The other day I passed on a tweet I came across about creating a PowerShell prompt that displayed the domain controller that authenticated you. The original post was in a NetApp forum. Later I realized what was posted was something … Continue reading →

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Friday Fun Convert Object to Hash Table

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Jeffery Hicks

I’ve been working on a few PowerShell projects recently and one requirement I had was to turn an object into a hash table. I thought this was something that was already handled in PowerShell but I couldn’t find a cmdlet … Continue reading →

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