Windows tips, howtos, scripts
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.Net and therefore the powershell has the ability to define a secure string. This means that the string is immediately deleted from memory if it is no longer needed.
Continue reading Powershell: Convert a string into a securestring and back to plaintext
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to get and the network access type and the network category use the powershell commandlets Continue reading Windows: Get, set or change the network access type or network category
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to simply send files by using the Windows Explorer sendto context menu you have to create an Outlook shortcut in the shell:sendto folder.
Continue reading Office 365: Add Outlook shortout to explorer’s sendto context menu
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this post contains some examples on how to interact with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. For an installation howto see my previous post.
Continue reading Windows: Working with the linux subsystem (WSL)
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if you want to create XML files with powershell which can be used on UNIX/Linux systems you need to write an own save function. Ths save() methode of the System.XML.XMLDocument class can only write Windows style XML files with Carriage return/New line endings.
Continue reading Powershell: Write XML files with UNIX line endings