by Edward van Biljon | Jan 3, 2021 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows 10 PowerShell
If you are running PowerShell V7 like I am, when you launch it you will see a white box similar to the one below: In this article, we will be upgrading using the command line and below is the command: iex “& { $(irm https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1) }...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 2, 2021 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Python, Windows 10 PowerShell
In my previous blog post on running Python scripts from PowerShell (Article Here), I was keen to test out the same thing but using PowerShell V7 instead of PowerShell V5.1 that comes with Windows 10. I used the same script as I did previously in PowerShell V7 and here...
by Edward van Biljon | Jan 1, 2021 | PowerShell V7, Windows 10 PowerShell
With commands run in PowerShell, I’m referring to the version that comes with Windows 10 (5.1), most scripts or commands run without error unless there is a problem with the script or command. I used a script from Idera to check skew on machines and this script...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 31, 2020 | PowerShell, PowerShell V7, Windows 10 PowerShell
In a previous article, we used Windows 10 which has PowerShell 5.1 to create a new email message. Here is the link to the article: PowerShell:- Create an email using PowerShell In this article we will perform the same function but we will use PowerShell v7.0.3...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 30, 2020 | PowerShell, Windows 10 PowerShell
In this article we are doing to perform two demonstrations for creating draft emails in Outlook from PowerShell. Option 1: Create an email draft however you need to open Outlook to see it.Option 2: Create an email draft but have the email open for you instead of...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 29, 2020 | PowerShell
If you are new to Windows 10, you may be wondering where to find the OS build information. Well, you can firstly head over to Settings -> System -> About and can see the information as below: Or you can use PowerShell and run a simple command to give you the...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 28, 2020 | PowerShell
I was recently asked how to get all Windows updates that are missing in Windows 10. There is a great script written by Grimthorr 5 years ago which is still working on the current version of Windows 10. To get the code, you can head over to his post on GitHub below:...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 27, 2020 | PowerShell
Sometimes in Windows 10, you are working on Outlook and you need to close it for some reason and when you try and launch it again nothing happens. This is because there is already a process running in the background, the previous session you closed did not end...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 26, 2020 | PowerShell
If you are like me and constantly experimenting with applications like PowerShell or Python, you end up doing things a bit differently to the normal user. Why click an Icon for Outlook to open or your daily apps when you can use PowerShell to do it for you. In the...
by Edward van Biljon | Dec 25, 2020 | Windows Server 2016 PowerShell, Window Server 2012 R2 PowerShell, Windows Server 2012 PowerShell, Windows Server 2019 PowerShell
One thing I have learnt is you cannot have too many log files. If you want visibility into what is running commands on your server or who is running commands or what is executing, you need to enable PowerShell logging. You get some really sophisticated malware that...
