Tag Archives: Powershell

TCP Communication with PowerShell Available in MEAP

One of my chapters in the upcoming PowerShell Deep Dives book just became available as part of the MEAP program at Manning. If you aren’t a part of the early access program, you should definitely check it out! Otherwise, you … Continue reading

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Fun with PowerShell and Permutations

Somewhere a while back I was reading about working with trying to find all possible combinations of a given word, called Permutations. Since my main goal was to take a given word (or string) and cycle through all of the … Continue reading

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Read File Without Updating LastAccess TimeStamp using PowerShell

In my last article I showed you how to write to a file covertly without updating the LastWrite and LastAccess time and even avoid being tripped by the FileSystemWatcher event.  This is a follow-up to that article that uses many … Continue reading

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Write to an Existing File Without Updating LastWriteTime or LastAccessTimestamps Using PowerShell

This little trick was something I stumbled upon while attempting to help solve an issue with a file scan that was about to take place. We wanted to know the last time a file was accessed and build out a … Continue reading

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PowerShell and Events: Object Events

Continuing in my little series on PowerShell and different types of events, I will go into working with Object events and how you can use those with the Register-ObjectEvent cmdlet. Because the parameters are the same as Register-EngineEvent, I won’t … Continue reading

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