Like every other project I’ve participated in, I recently experienced problems when trying to implement continuous delivery of Windows Services and websites. The problem arise when trying to update some files in a remote directory using PowerShell. The remoting part isn’t an issue thi...
Create a Schedule Task that deletes itself and runs without me logged on. Create Active Directory Groups with users from CSV Create AD user is sub OU Create All User Logon Scheduled Task Create and configure a shared printer in a GPO with powershell Create CSV for list of files and fold...
Does anyone know of a good powershell command that can delete the contents of a large SPO library? I've tried deleting it it through the gui, and get the "This exceeds the list view threshhold" error. No kidding it exceeds the threshold, by a few million items. I even tried to del...
The use of the commands, in addition to the use of thedircommand to check the status of the four test folders are shown in the image that follows. Method 3: Use .NET classes The third way I want to illustrate uses the .NET FrameworkSystem.IO.Directoryclass to delete a folder. It is...
Method 2:Delete Folders and Subfolders inCommand Prompt According to official Microsoft documentation, thedel commanddeletes one or more files and thermdir commanddeletes file directory. Both of these commands can also be run in the Windows Recovery Environment. Here’s how to delete folders and ...
As a result, the item exists, but it is empty. Clear-Content is similar to Clear-Item, but it works on items with contents, instead of items with values.ExamplesExample 1: Delete all content from a directoryPowerShell Copy Clear-Content "..\SmpUsers\*\init.txt"...
This example's current working directory isC:\Test.Start-Jobuses theWorkingDirectoryparameter to specify the job's working directory. TheScriptBlockparameter uses$PWDto display the job's working directory.Receive-Jobdisplays the background job's output.AutoRemoveJobdeletes the job andWaitsuppresses th...
To view the contents from a PowerShell session:Get-ChildItem -Path Public: Example 2: Create a temporary drive mapped to a local directory This example creates a temporary PowerShell drive that provides access to a directory on the local computer. ...
Sometimes when an error occurs, it's not catastrophic. For example, if you want to remove thousands of files in a directory, failing to remove one or two of those files won't invalidate all the other file deletions. These are non-terminating errors—that is, it's still an error, but ...
Clear-History Deletes entries from the command history. Clear-Item Deletes the contents of an item but does not delete the item. Clear-ItemProperty Deletes the value of a property but does not delete the property. Clear-Variable Deletes the value of a variable. Compare-Object Compares two ...