Chapter 6 Quick Reference

Open table as spreadsheet

To	Do This
Simplify connecting into WMI while using default security permissions	Use the Get-WmiObject cmdlet
To control security when making a remote connection	Specify the impersonation levels in your script
To allow a script to use the credentials of the person launching the script	Use the “impersonate” impersonation level
To allow a script to load a driver	Use the loadDriver privilege
To control security when making a remote connection	Specify the impersonation levels in your script
Get rid of system properties when printing out all properties of a WMI class	Use the Format-List cmdlet and specify the property argument must be in range of [a–z]*
Get the current date and time	Use the Get-Date cmdlet
Subtract two dates	Use the New-TimeSpan cmdlet. Supply two date objects as arguments
Retrieve a listing of all commands typed during a Windows PowerShell session	Use the Get-History cmdlet
Run a command from the Windows PowerShell session history	Use the Invoke-History cmdlet
Retrieve the minimum and maximum values from an object	Use the Measure-Object cmdlet while specifying the property argument as well as the minimum and maximum arguments
Produce paged output from a long scrolling command	Pipeline the resulting object from the command into the more function