Bijay Kumar 
If you’ve ever had to deal with an XML file and needed to make sense of its data quickly, you probably know how messy it can look at first glance. Nested tags, attributes everywhere, and no clear rows or columns. The good news? PowerShell makes it surprisingly easy to pull that data out and display … Read more
If you’ve ever run a calculation in PowerShell and ended up with a result like 3.75 when you just needed 3, you know this problem well. PowerShell stores decimal numbers as doubles by default. And sometimes you just want a clean integer — no fractional part, no trailing decimal, just a whole number you can use in a … Read more
If you’ve ever needed to convert a time value — like 01:30:00 or a DateTime — into total seconds in PowerShell, you know it’s one of those tasks that sounds simple but can trip you up if you don’t know the right approach. I’ve been through that confusion myself. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through five … Read more
If you’ve ever had a string like “Apple Banana Cherry” and needed each word on its own line, you’ve come to the right place. Converting spaces to new lines in PowerShell sounds simple, but there are a few ways to do it — each one suits a slightly different situation. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through … Read more
If you’ve been working with PowerShell for a while, you’ve probably run into this situation: you’ve got an array full of objects — maybe from Get-Process, Get-ADUser, or a custom PSObject — and you need to extract one property as a clean array of strings. It sounds simple, but there are actually several ways to do it, and each … Read more
If you’ve ever worked with Active Directory, Azure AD, or any system that stores identity data, you’ve probably run into GUIDs. They look like this: bcd2e574-8d58-4136-a9df-8a19b145db79. Clean enough. But then someone asks you for the hex representation, and suddenly things get confusing. I’ve been there. You Google around, find a few scattered Stack Overflow answers, and … Read more
If you’ve ever run a PowerShell command and stared at a wall of text scrolling past in the console, you already know the pain. It’s hard to read, hard to sort, and nearly impossible to pick out what you actually need. That’s exactly where Out-GridView comes in — and once you start using it, you’ll wonder how … Read more
If you’ve spent any time working with APIs, configuration files, or automation pipelines in PowerShell, you’ve almost certainly needed to deal with JSON. And the cmdlet sitting right at the center of all of that is ConvertTo-Json. In this tutorial, I will explain how to use ConvertTo-Json in PowerShell with real-world examples. What Is ConvertTo-Json in … Read more
You’re trying to delete or move a file, and Windows throws that frustrating “The file is in use by another process” error. You have no idea what’s holding it. Task Manager shows a dozen processes, and you’re left guessing. Sound familiar? Good news — PowerShell gives you several solid ways to track down exactly which … Read more
If you’ve worked with modern APIs—even briefly—you already know that JSON is everywhere. Whether you’re integrating with Microsoft 365 services, pulling data from third-party APIs, or automating internal systems, you’ll almost always be dealing with JSON over HTTP. In my day-to-day work as a Microsoft 365 administrator and automation consultant, one of the most common … Read more
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