PowerShell is a powerful scripting and automation tool in the Windows operating system that allows you to interact with various system components, including the BIOS settings. This guide explores how to use Windows PowerShell to view and change BIOS/UEFI settings on a Windows computer. This guide covers how to check your BIOS/UEFI version, make changes…
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The Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and the reg.exe command-line utility aren’t the only tools in Windows for accessing and managing the registry. PowerShell offers a lot of tools for administrators to interact with the registry. In this article, you will learn “Get and Edit Registry Keys: How to Create and Delete Registry Keys via PowerShell in…
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Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) can control what runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11 by setting policies that specify whether a driver or application is trusted. A policy includes policy rules that control options such as audit mode and file rules (or file rule levels) that specify how applications are identified and trusted. . Please see Configure Multiple IP…
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PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language, and a framework for processing cmdlets. There are several ways to install PowerShell on macOS. If you wish to install PowerShell via Homebrew package manager for macOS, please see “how to install and uninstall…
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Kindly visit the following hyperlinks for more information. How to uninstall built-in apps using PowerShell in Windows 10, how to uninstall a program via Command Prompt (CMD) in Windows. In this article, you will learn how to get a list of installed applications on Windows. PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET….
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In this guide, we will discuss How to perform PowerShell syntax check using PSScriptAnalyzer. The PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) is an open-source tool that Microsoft developed. It is a static code checker for PowerShell modules and scripts. Here is a similar article on PowerShell debugging, Ansible Syntax Checker, how to debug a PowerShell script, how to install and debug…
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PowerShell is configured to prevent the execution of PowerShell scripts on Windows systems by default. The PowerShell execution policy is a safety feature implemented to control the various conditions under which PowerShell loads configuration files and runs scripts. As discussed in one of my previous blog posts “how to Set Execution Policy via Windows PowerShell” and “how to…
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The PowerShell announced PowerShell 7 on March 4th, 2020. PowerShell 7 is built on .NET Core 3 and brings many unique APIs required by modules built on .NET Framework in order for them to work with .NET Core runtime. While PowerShell Core 6 was focusing on bringing cross-platform compatibility, is the latest major update to…
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PowerShellGet is an open-source project, and both the PowerShellGet and PackageManagement modules are available in the PowerShell Gallery. PowerShellGet is now a repo under github.com/PowerShell. The PackageManagement module is already open-sourced as it is part of the OneGet project. Check out the new PowerShellGet repo at github.com/PowerShell/PowerShellGet. PowerShellGet is a PowerShell module with commands for discovering, installing, updating, and publishing the…
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PowerShell is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and objects models. It includes a command-line shell, an associated scripting language and a framework for processing cmdlet. In this article,…
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