The other day I shared some ideas on why and how you might want to build a custom format view in PowerShell. As I mentioned in that article, PowerShell ships with a number of custom views for different types of objects. How did I know that view existed? What other views exist that I don’t…
Tag: Update-FormatData
Solving the PowerShell Object Age Challenge – Part 2
The other day I shared part of my solution to an Iron Scripter challenge to write a generic function to report on the age of an object. The idea being that you could pipe any type of object to the function and get a result. And because I can’t help myself, I went a bit…
There’s Sum-thing Happening Here
I am one of those IT Pros who keeps close tabs on system resources. I like to know what is being used and by what. As you might imagine, a cmdlet like Get-Process, is pretty useful to me. One of the things I’m always checking is how much memory Google Chrome is taking. I don’t…
Get ACL Information with PowerShell
I got a question in the “Ask Don and Jeff” forum on PowerShell.com that intrigued me. The issue was working with the results of the Get-ACL cmdlet. The resulting object includes a property called Access which is a collection of access rule objects. Assuming you are using this with the file system, these are System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule…