scripts
Scripts from the Scripts repo.
Command
- 🆙 Hide-Command.ps1: Make a command unavailable.
- 🆙 Invoke-CommandWithParams.ps1: Execute a command by using matching dictionary entries as parameters.
- 🆙 Use-Command.ps1: Checks for the existence of the given command, and adds if missing and a source is defined.
Configuration
- 🆙 Use-NetMailConfig.ps1: Use .NET configuration to set defaults for Send-MailMessage.
Console
- Set-ConsoleColorTheme.ps1: Overrides ConsoleClass window color palette entries with a preset color theme.
Credential
- 🆙 Get-CachedCredential.ps1: Return a credential from secure storage, or prompt the user for it if not found.
- 🆙 Remove-CachedCredential.ps1: Removes a credential from secure storage.
- Save-Secret.ps1: Sets a secret in a secret vault with metadata.
Data formats
- Test-Windows1252.ps1: Determines whether a file contains Windows-1252 bytes that are invalid UTF-8 bytes.
Database
- 🆙 ConvertFrom-DataRow.ps1: Converts a DataRow object to a PSObject, Hashtable, or single value.
- 🆙 Use-SqlcmdParams.ps1: Use the calling script parameters to set Invoke-Sqlcmd defaults.
Date and time
- ConvertTo-LogParserTimestamp.ps1: Formats a datetime as a LogParser literal.
DotNet
- Get-DotNetFrameworkVersions.ps1: Determine which .NET Frameworks are installed on the requested system.
- Get-DotNetGlobalTools.ps1: Returns a list of global dotnet tools.
- Get-DotNetVersions.ps1: Determine which .NET Core & Framework versions are installed.
- 🆙 Update-DotNetPackages.ps1: Updates NuGet packages for a .NET solution or project.
EnvironmentVariables
- Compress-EnvironmentVariables.ps1: Replaces each of the longest matching parts of a string with an embedded environment variable with that value.
Files
- Join-FileName.ps1: Combines a filename with a string.
- 🆙 Measure-Caches.ps1: Returns a list of matching cache directories, and their sizes, sorted.
- New-Shortcut.ps1: Create a Windows shortcut.
- Remove-LockyFile.ps1: Removes a file that may be prone to locking.
- Test-LockedFile.ps1: Returns true if the specified file is locked.
Packages and libraries
- Find-ProjectPackages.ps1: Find modules used in projects.
PowerShell
- 🆙 Add-ScopeLevel.ps1: Convert a scope level to account for another call stack level.
- 🆕 Convert-ExternalScriptToModule.ps1: Convert a script from external script usage to module cmdlet usage.
Scheduled Tasks
- Backup-SchTasks.ps1: Exports the local list of Scheduled Tasks into a single XML file.
- 🆙 ConvertFrom-CimInstance.ps1: Convert a CimInstance object to a PSObject.
- Copy-SchTasks.ps1: Copy scheduled jobs from another computer to this one, using a GUI list to choose jobs.
- Get-SimpleSchTasks.ps1: Returns simple scheduled task info.
- Restore-SchTasks.ps1: Imports from a single XML file into the local Scheduled Tasks.
- Set-SchTaskMsa.ps1: Sets a Scheduled Task’s runtime user as the given gMSA/MSA.
Scripts
- 🆙 New-PesterTests.ps1: Creates a new Pester testing script from a script’s examples and parameter sets.
- 🆙 New-Script.ps1: Creates a simple boilerplate script.
- Optimize-Help.ps1: Cleans up comment-based help blocks by fully unindenting and capitalizing dot keywords.
- 🆙 Rename-Script.ps1: Renames all instances of a script, and updates any usage of it.
Search and replace
- Find-Lines.ps1: Searches a specific subset of files for lines matching a pattern.
System and updates
- Convert-ChocolateyToWinget.ps1: Change from managing various packages with Chocolatey to WinGet.
- Export-EdgeKeywords.ps1: Returns the configured search keywords from an Edge SQLite file.
- Export-InstalledPackages.ps1: Exports the list of packages installed by various tools.
- Find-InstalledPrograms.ps1: Searches installed programs.
- Get-SystemDetails.ps1: Collects some useful system hardware and operating system details via CIM.
- Import-EdgeKeywords.ps1: Adds search keywords to an Edge SQLite profile configuration.
- 🆙 Read-ChocolateySummary.ps1: Retrieves the a summary from the Chocolatey log.
- 🆙 Update-Everything.ps1: Updates everything it can on the system.
- Use-Java.ps1: Switch the Java version for the current process by modifying environment variables.
Unicode
- Get-UnicodeData.ps1: Returns the current (cached) Unicode character data.
Windows Terminal
- 🆙 Set-TerminalProfile.ps1: Adds or updates a Windows Terminal command profile.
- Test-WindowsTerminal.ps1: Returns true if PowerShell is running within Windows Terminal.
Other
- 🆙 Backup-Workstation.ps1: Adds various configuration files and exported settings to a ZIP file.
- 🆙 Export-Readme.ps1: Generate README.md file for the scripts repo.
- Get-ADServiceAccountInfo.ps1: Lists the Global Managed Service Accounts for the domain, including the computers they are bound to.
- Get-AspNetEvents.ps1: Parses ASP.NET errors from the event log on the given server.
- Get-IisLog.ps1: Easily query IIS logs.
- Get-PathUsage.ps1: Returns the list of directories in the path, and the commands found in each.
- Measure-Indents.ps1: Measures the indentation characters used in a text file.
- Measure-StandardDeviation.ps1: Calculate the standard deviation of numeric values.
- Measure-TextFile.ps1: Counts each type of indent and line ending.
- 🆙 New-RandomVehicle.ps1: Generates random vehicle details with a valid VIN.
- 🆙 Optimize-Path.ps1: Sorts, prunes, and normalizes both user and system Path entries.
- Repair-AppxPackages.ps1: Re-registers all installed Appx packages.
- 🆙 Restore-Workstation.ps1: Restores various configuration files and exported settings from a ZIP file.
- Send-MailMessageFile.ps1: Sends emails from a drop folder using .NET config defaults.