Archive for May, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Beginning PowerShell Free Tutorial – Creating Your Profile

Whether you’re new to PowerShell or not, when you find yourself ready to start customizing PowerShell and making it do a few tricks, you’re going to want to setup your profile.

Don’t worry, I will show you how to create your profile, and even show you how to add a few cool things to your profile.  You are about to develop the skills to tame that PowerShell profile!

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PostHeaderIcon How To Find Your System Path – Using PowerShell and Environment Variables

Just had a couple techs scratching their heads about finding the path.

Seriously? Yes.

But to be fair, the path can get long and downright hard to read.   And that was the problem for our tech friends.

Now my friends are smart guys, but they had a problem with a path.  I can understand, since my path statement is over 800 characters, and nearly impossible to understand when read the normal way.  They should have learned PowerShell.  I’ll show you why, and it’s a great example of how PowerShell blows away other methods by being super easy and ultra flexible.

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