Programmatically Scroll Internet Explorer with PowerShell
My top preference for data munging and harvesting from The Web is Internet Explorer, Yes, Internet Explorer! 🙂 because I can create an InternetExplorer.Application object and access the HTML DOM to scrape web data as and when required. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be…
Plot Graph in Powershell console
* Color-coded output depending upon the Value of the Datapoint; Above or below predefined thresholds
* Display custom information on X and Y-Axis labels
* A Graph in the console that is independent and fully customizable, not like Task Manager’s (no need to switch to Performance Tab) and,
* Could be easily used in any Powershell script to monitor performance on any defined parameter, which I see as the biggest benefit of the function.
* Function consumes data points, generated during script execution or Pre-stored data like from a file or database.
Get MAC Vendor using PowerShell
Introduction to ‘Get MAC Vendor using PowerShell’: Yesterday while troubleshooting a network issue, I realized that if I can know the vendor of a MAC Address, then I could understand if it’s a Dell Router, a VMWare virtual NIC or a Dell server then maybe…
3 ways to store and display PowerShell Variable simultaneously
Video Tutorial In order to write less code or to write better one-liners in Powershell, I often find one of these PowerShell Variable assignment techniques useful, and let me know if you feel the same. Using -OutVariable parameter Get-Process a* -OutVariable process PowerShell Variable squeezing Its…
PowerShell Select-Object by Value
If you are reading this you must have used PowerShell Select-object in PowerShell to select properties of an object something like Or, Where-Object cmdlet to filter out values on any specific object property like All these work well when you know the Property Name you are searching….
PowerShell Abstract Syntax Tree and Tokens
Introduction A few days ago in a discussion on Facebook’s PowerShell Group, I realized the many people don’t understand how to Tokenize or Use PowerShell Abstract Syntax Tree to understand your PowerShell scripts better. I think the reason behind this unawareness is mostly because it doesn’t…
URL Encode and Decode with PowerShell
Changing a URL candidate to valid ASCII format is called URL Encoding and can be done like in the below image using System.Web.HttpUtility class in .Net framework. You can also perform its reverse which is call URL Decoding.
Query Port Information using Powershell
Have you ever googled a port number to figure out what service uses it? I think every system administrator must have done this. But what if there are a lot of port to search?
So I thought giving it try with PowerShell if we can use the shell to pro-grammatical get port information of lots of port numbers.
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