Last month, our monitoring vendor started dropping daily inventory exports as XML files onto a file share. Finance wanted them in Excel. For two weeks, someone on my team opened each file, copied nodes by hand, and pasted them into a workbook. It took an hour a day, and the numbers were wrong twice. I … Read more
Last month I inherited a file server cleanup script from a colleague who’d left the company. It read folder names from a CSV, glued them together with plain string concatenation, and then failed on half the rows. Some paths had double backslashes. Others had trailing spaces. A few used relative paths like ..\Archive that never resolved correctly. … Read more
Last month, our HR team dumped 240 scanned policy PDFs on my desk. They needed each one as an editable Word document so they could update the 2026 wording. Opening each file by hand in Word would have eaten a full week. I wrote a short script instead. It finished in about twenty minutes while … Read more
I have lost count of how many times I have needed a favicon at short notice and ended up on some random online converter, uploading a company logo I probably shouldn’t be handing to a stranger’s server. It works, but it always feels wrong. The confusing part is that Windows has no built-in ICO cmdlet. … Read more
When you know only part of a folder name—such as Finance, Archive, or Project-A—PowerShell can search a local drive, mapped drive, or file share and return the matching folder paths. The recommended approach is Get-ChildItem with -Directory, followed by a wildcard filter such as -like ‘*Finance*’. This is useful in IT administration when you need … Read more
I’ve seen this confusion come up a lot in real admin work. Someone opens Windows Terminal, types a PowerShell command, and then assumes both tools are the same thing. They are not the same, and that difference matters when you build scripts, run admin tasks, or set up a better workflow. Once you understand it, … Read more
A file server’s free space can disappear faster than expected. I have seen a small company’s D:\CompanyData drive fill up because old application logs, user exports, and archived project files kept growing unnoticed. The Windows folder Properties dialog works for one quick check, but it does not scale when you need to inspect multiple folders … Read more
If you’ve spent any time working with strings in PowerShell, you already know that finding the first occurrence of something is easy — IndexOf() handles that in one line. But what about the second occurrence? Or the third? That’s where things get a little more interesting. In this tutorial, I’ll show you several ways to find the second occurrence … Read more
When I build server inventory scripts, I often collect values such as whether BitLocker is enabled, a service is running, or a disk is online. PowerShell returns these values as Boolean data: $true or $false. That works well in an if statement, but it becomes a problem when a CSV file, database field, or API … Read more
I’ve seen this problem a lot in file server cleanup work: one folder fills up with reports, and the destination folder already has some of those files. If you move everything blindly, you overwrite good files or create a messy duplicate situation. A simple PowerShell script solves it cleanly. You check whether each file already … Read more
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