Useful PowerShell Snippets

Windows Exclusive

Check IP Addresses

Get-NetIPAddress

Enable RDP

Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server' -Name "fDenyTSConnections" -Value 0
Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Remote Desktop"

Cross-platform

Note: not all examples are cross-platform, but the concepts they are being used to illustrate are.

Filter objects

example: get the ID and Name of all processes that have been running since before midnight on 19 Jan. 2023

Get-Process | Where-Object {$_.StartTime -lt (Get-Date '2023-01-29 00:00')} | Select-Object Id,Name

Install Module

For the sake of example, I'll demonstrate the installation of VMware's PowerCLI toolset

Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI