Unblock a file with PowerShell?
If you are using PowerShell v3, you can use the Unblock-File cmdlet. The “blocking” part is simply an alternate data stream of the file, named “Zone.Identifier”. You can display it…
PowerShell Environment
http://powershell.org/wp/2015/08/08/continuous-integration-continuous-delivery-and-psdeploy/ Fun with Github, Pester, AppVeyor. Jakub Jareš has a great set of articles on PowerShellMagazine.com (One, Two, Three),
Variable scoping in PowerShell
ou can use scope modifiers or the *-Variable cmdlets. The scope modifiers are: global used to access/modify at the outermost scope (eg. the interactive shell) script used on access/modify at…
How does the RemoteSigned execution policy work?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/03/07/how-does-the-remotesigned-execution-policy-work.aspx You might have wondered how the “RemoteSigned” execution policy protects us from running unsigned PowerShell scripts downloaded from the internet. We use the URL Security Zones API related to…
The object-orientedness of PowerShell and what you see may not be what you get
PS ewu\My Documents\GitHub\PowerShell> get-aduser ewu -Properties LastLogonDate | Select LastLogonDate LastLogonDate ————- 1/1/2016 6:22:01 PM PS ewu\My Documents\GitHub\PowerShell> get-aduser ewu -Properties LastLogonDate | Select LastLogonDate | gm TypeName: Selected.Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.ADUser ======…