A Task-Based Guide to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets
Dates and Times
These tasks include such things as retrieving the current date and time, and performing date arithmetic.
Files and Folders
These tasks include such things as creating, renaming, copying, and deleting files and folders.
Help and Information
These tasks include such things as listing Windows PowerShell verion information and using the Get-Member cmdlet to retrieve property and method information for an object.
Saving and Importing Data
These tasks include such things as reading and writing to text files as well as saving data in HTML or XML format.
Security and Security Descriptors
These tasks include such things as configuring the Windows PowerShell script execution policy and retrieving the digital signature or security descriptor from a file or folder.
System Administration Tasks
These tasks include such things as starting and stopping services, retrieving data using WMI, and managing event logs and event log events.
Windows PowerShell Drives and Namespaces
These tasks include such things as retrieving and remapping existing aliases as well as creating new aliases.
Windows PowerShell Sessions
These tasks include such things as retrieving the Windows PowerShell history and re-invoking a command contained within that history.
Scripts and Applications
These tasks include such things as running scripts and/or applications as well as measuring how long it takes a Windows PowerShell task to complete.
Scripting Techniques
These techniques include such things as sorting data, filtering data, and prompting a user to enter information.
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