PowerShell
6 posts, newest first.
2026
- Downloading files with PowerShell in 2026
Tested PowerShell 7 snippets for downloading files on Windows, macOS and Linux, with resume, parallel downloads, hash checks and fresh benchmarks.
2016
- Simple SQL in PowerShell
A small Invoke-SqlCommand function that runs SQL queries from PowerShell using only the .NET framework, with no SQL tools to install.
2015
- 3 ways to download files with PowerShell
I time Invoke-WebRequest, System.Net.WebClient and Start-BitsTransfer for downloading files in PowerShell, and explain when to use each. - Going paperless with Tesseract OCR
Using Tesseract OCR from PowerShell to read text from scanned documents, my first step towards sorting a mountain of paperwork automatically.
2014
- Installing drivers from untrusted publishers
How to install drivers silently during imaging by importing the publisher’s certificate into the Trusted Publishers store first. - Setting the Windows 8 Account Picture from AD
A PowerShell script that sets each domain user’s Windows 8 account picture from their photo in Active Directory.