When you get a massive output from PowerShell that you want to copy, you can manually select it all or use Set-Clipboard. Manual selection means scrolling up, starting to select, dragging down ...

As you look at this command, you will notice that I am searching on VM* and not V*. The reason for this is that PowerShell seems to have a bug. If you simply use V*, it seems to ignore the letter V.

M icrosoft replaced the standard command prompt with Windows PowerShell — a much more powerful CLI-based tool that can be used for scripting and automating tasks. Along with aut ...

To do so, you would use this command: Get-VM | Out-File C:\Data\VMs.txt If we want to read the text file from within PowerShell, we can use this command: Get-Content -Path C:\Data\VMs.txt ...

I could use Invoke-History. Invoke-History is a little-known command that performs a simple function. It has a single parameter called Id which represents the command ID that should be executed. Below ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 6. Virutal machine sitting at the operating system installation window. From here we can continue on our way to get this virtual machine configured and send it ...

In other words I want to do as much of the things that can be done with Hyper-V manager from the command line/power shell scripts running on the console of a Core Server.