Experimenting with PowerShell
PowerShell is typically preinstalled on modern Windows desktop and server platforms. If it is not present, you can download and install it by searching for **Windows Management Fr…
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PowerShell ISE Panels
PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) is a free Windows application that provides a workspace for experimenting with and writing [[PowerShell CmdLets]] and scripts. It…
PowerShell Custom Objects
PowerShell is built around **objects** rather than plain text. CmdLets like `Get-Process` return objects with **properties** (data) and **methods** (actions). Objects make it easy…
Select-Object
`Select-Object` is a PowerShell CmdLet that selects or shapes the properties of objects coming through the pipeline. It is commonly used to limit output, pick specific properties,…
PowerShell ForEach-Object CmdLet
`ForEach-Object` is a PowerShell CmdLet that processes each object coming through the pipeline one at a time. It is the standard way to run a script block against every item in a …
PowerShell EventLog CmdLets
PowerShell provides built-in **EventLog cmdlets** for collecting and inspecting Windows event logs. The most commonly used cmdlet is **Get-EventLog**, which retrieves events from …
Inspecting .NET Classes from PowerShell
PowerShell can instantiate and inspect .NET objects directly. The [[Get-Member CmdLet]] is central to this, as covered in [[Experimenting with PowerShell]]. A practical discovery …
PowerShell Network Configuration CmdLets
This section introduces three PowerShell CmdLets used to examine network settings on a Windows system. Unlike the legacy Windows Command Line, PowerShell exposes network configura…
Firewall Service Filter
A **Service Filter** in Windows Firewall with Advanced Security is a rule property that limits a firewall rule to traffic associated with a specific Windows service. Instead of ap…
Get-Member CmdLet
# Get-Member CmdLet `Get-Member` is a PowerShell discovery CmdLet that reveals the **members** (properties, methods, events, and other object attributes) of any object piped into…
PowerShell Replace String in File
PowerShell provides several ways to replace strings inside files using the standard **verb-noun** [[CmdLet]] pairs `Get-Content` and `Set-Content`, plus the `-replace` operator. …