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How to Run a Command Stored in a Variable | PowerShell

May 5, 2025 Zsolt Agoston
Use the & operator to execute the content of a variable in PowerShell ... Read More
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How to get the UPN of current user with PowerShell (Cmd)

October 24, 2021
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An easy way to get the UserPrincipalName of the logged on user for scripts and automation tasks ... Read More
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How to Replace Crayon with Enlighter in WordPress

September 12, 2021
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This guide shows you how to repair your site if the old Crayon WordPress plugin broke it. I show you all the steps to migrate your code snippets to the newer Enlighter plugin ... Read More
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How to print the Global Address Book in Outlook

September 8, 2021
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A detailed guide on how to print or export the Global Address List using the Outlook client ... Read More
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PowerShell: Extract Pattern from a String

August 11, 2021
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Two methods of extracting text from an input string with PowerShell using regex expressions ... Read More
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Upgrade PHP 7.2 to PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu

August 4, 2021
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Upgrade the deprecated PHP 7.2 version to PHP 7.4 on your Ubuntu machine ... Read More
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How to Remove Website Field from WordPress Comments

August 4, 2021
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Get rid of the Website field in the WordPress comments form in a few steps ... Read More
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Regex tricks – Remove leading and trailing white spaces with Notepad++ and Vim

August 1, 2021
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Learn how to remove leading and trailing whitespaces with either Notepad++ or Vim ... Read More
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What admin role needed to run a specific cmdlet

July 29, 2021
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Find out which RBAC role you need to run a specific PowerShell cmdlet in Azure or on-prem ... Read More
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Restore AD Active Directory Object – Tombstone Reanimation

June 29, 2021
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A step-by-step guide to reanimate deleted Active Directory objects from their tombstone. This is the only method if Active Directory Recycle Bin is not activated in the domain ... Read More
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How to Query and Restore Deleted AD Users with PowerShell

June 29, 2021
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Query deleted AD accounts or get a list of all removed AD users with PowerShell ... Read More
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Use the ls command to list only a directory, NOT it’s contents in Linux

June 28, 2021
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Learn how to get the filesystem information of a directory itself, NOT it's contents, using ls in unix ... Read More
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How to create NAT-ed subnets in Hyper-V

May 17, 2021
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In this exercise we go through the process of setting up a Hyper-V environment on a regular computer, with multiple virtual switches and subnets configured on them ... Read More
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Grep command in PowerShell (recursive)

May 10, 2021
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A simple function to mimic the Unix recursive grep command ... Read More
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Fix 100% disk usage in Windows 10 with slow HDD

May 2, 2021
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Do you have an older computer, with a traditional HDD on the slow side? Is that computer running the drive with 100% utilization, and the response time is super high, possibly 1000-5000ms? You might have tried to disable the Windows ... Read More
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Convert to and from Epoch Time using PowerShell

March 26, 2021
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Converting date and time to Epoch (Unix) time, and Epoch time back to human readable date ... Read More
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PowerShell – How to Decrypt a SecureString

March 18, 2021
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Two ways to decrypt a SecureString in PowerShell ... Read More
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