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PowerShell ISE Crashes When Loading

I’ve recently come across an issue where PowerShell ISE crashes when loading. Bizarrely, it only failed to launch when using ‘RunAs’ to elevate it as a different (admin) user. It worked fine if i ran it as the logged in...

October 4, 2022

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Create a Registry Value and Path in One Line Using PowerShell

Here’s a useful snippet of code allowing us to create a registry value and path in one line using PowerShell. In this example, we’re trying to write a registry name called “AlkaneName” with a value of “AlkaneValue” to a registry...

September 29, 2022

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Access Denied When Calling Remove-Item

I was recently getting access denied when calling Remove-Item to delete a directory, even though the directory permissions were fine and I could delete the folder manually! An example piece of code was simply: Remove-Item -LiteralPath "C:\Users\AlkaneUser\Desktop\Alkane" -Force -Recurse Yes,...

September 29, 2022

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Enable Implicit Uninstalls in SCCM Using PowerShell

In this post we discuss how to enable implicit uninstalls in SCCM using PowerShell and WMI. There are certain prerequisites for implicit uninstalls to work: You need to be running at least version 2107 of SCCM (MECM) You need to...

September 20, 2022

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Use PowerShell to Calculate Bit Flags

We can use PowerShell to calculate bit flags, so that we know which configurations have been set. For examples where we don’t want to create our own enum, we can read using PowerShell bitwise comparison operators to check and set...

September 20, 2022

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Concatenate Strings and Variables in PowerShell

When we’re scripting solutions, we need to understand how to concatenate strings and variables in PowerShell. “Concatenate” is just a posh word for joining/linking together. There are many ways to concatenate strings and variables in PowerShell – below are a...

September 16, 2022

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How Do You Comment Out Code in PowerShell?

A common question asked by scripting beginners is how do you comment out code in PowerShell? Luckily it’s simple. Commenting code is always good practise for a variety of reasons; one being if you pass your script on to a...

September 16, 2022

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How To Determine the Installed PowerShell Version

Sometimes we need to know how to determine the installed PowerShell version on a machine, since later versions come with additional features and improved performance. PowerShell 1.0 shipped with 129 cmdlets but PowerShell 2.0 had over 600 cmdlets! And over...

September 16, 2022

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Passing Multiple Arguments to a PowerShell Function

Passing multiple arguments to a PowerShell function can be slightly confusing, especially if coming from a VBScript background. You see, when calling a VBScript function with multiple arguments you specify a comma in between the arguments when you call the...

September 13, 2022

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Find the Product Name, Product Code and More for an Installed MSI

Occasionally we need to find the Product Name, Product Code and more for an installed MSI. It’s also handy to find the Install Source so we can see where i was installed from. There are various ways to achieve this...

September 13, 2022

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Author: Kae

PowerShell ISE Crashes When Loading

Create a Registry Value and Path in One Line Using PowerShell

Access Denied When Calling Remove-Item

Enable Implicit Uninstalls in SCCM Using PowerShell

Use PowerShell to Calculate Bit Flags

Concatenate Strings and Variables in PowerShell

How Do You Comment Out Code in PowerShell?

How To Determine the Installed PowerShell Version

Passing Multiple Arguments to a PowerShell Function

Find the Product Name, Product Code and More for an Installed MSI

PowerShell Script Support for Installing and Uninstalling Intune Win32 Applications

Use PowerShell to Read MSI Windows Installer Properties

Evergreen Application Packaging converting Winget to MSIX

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