I hope powershell have a cool module about the network tool ,make them work like tcpdump , netcat in linux.

It's very very cool things , will make me fly in our daily task.

json is becoming the new standard (if not already)
It would be nice to have an import-json and a export-json as we have in xml/csv instead of the two steps process with get-content and convertfrom-json and convertto-json.

Make ConvertFrom-String available in PowerShell core as it's super useful when parsing txt files.

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath doesn't support long path, for example:

Get-ChildItem -LiteralPath 'D:\aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbccccccccccddddddddddeeeeeeeeeeffffffffffgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiijjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkllllllllllmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooppppppppppqqqqqqqqqqrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssttttttttttuuuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvwwwwwwwwwwxxxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzzz.txt'

Which path is longer than 260 bytes, even if the file DO exists in that path.

But `Get-ChildItem` WITHOUT `-LiteralPath` works well with that long-path file.

$PSVersionTable

Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 5.1.17763.134
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.17763.134
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

While the UI for ExchangeOnline and Office365 can use UTF-8 when creating new resources, the Powershell cmdlet cannot.

-Confirm & -WhatIf Optional Parameters not honoured on Remove-PrintJob even though they are included in documentation.

The `-NoEnumerate` switch doesn't work when when the input is named using the `-InputObject` argument in PowerShell version 5.1.

The following script returns `False`:

Function Test {Write-Output -InputObject (,'Test') -NoEnumerate}
(Test) -is [Array]

While this script returns `True`:

Function Test {Write-Output (,'Test') -NoEnumerate}
(Test) -is [Array]

$PSVersionTable

Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 5.1.17134.858
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.17134.858
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

This issue doesn't appear with PowerShell Core 6.2

Hello, we've been using command Get-AuthenticodeSignature to validate a signed/time stamped file, and this works as expected in Server 2008 R2 and Server 2016 machines. But targeting the same file from Server 2012 R2 Powershell ISE, returns empty TimeStamperCertificate property. I've confirmed PS1, .NET framework and Authenticode module versions to be latest, and server patches are up to date. It seems that the root issue is within Microsoft.Powershell.Security library.

Thanks

Vlad

Since some version of Windows 10, creating a symbolic link should not require administrator privilege. In cmd, using mklink to create a symbolic link without administrator privilege works, but New-Item in PowerShell doesn't work.

Does DISM cmdlets have a GitHub repository so I can add and extend WinPE-DismCmdlets-Package?

A Git(hub) place for Windows PowerShell 5.1 code base (Win32/x64) suppository with changes, improvements, bug-fixes, NEW-Cmdlets, etc... merged back into itself.

When creating a new partition with the parameter UseMaximumSize, the partition is created with 1031680 bytes less than reported by the SizeMax value from the Get-PartitionSupportedSize cmdlet.

I tested this on Windows 2019 on ESX 6.7 and Azure.

To reproduce (example with a 10GB disk):

New-Partition -DiskNumber 2 -DriveLetter F -UseMaximumSize

(Get-PartitionSupportedSize -DriveLetter F).SizeMax
10720624128

(Get-Partition -DriveLetter F).Size
10719592448

Resize-Partition -DriveLetter F -Size 10720624128
Resize-Partition : Size Not Supported
Extended information:
The size of the extent is less than the minimum of 1MB.

Possibly related issue in https://windowsserver.uservoice.com/forums/301869-powershell/suggestions/36967870-get-partitionsupportedsize-and-msft-partition-clas

The test-dtc command tries to find some firewall rules that isn't present in either Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 and will not complete it's testing because of this.

In addition, it shouldn't test for firewall rules if firewall is disabled, since the firewall rules doesn't have any impact.

The following firewall rules fails that they are disabled (but they don't exists):
- RPC Endpoint Mapper
- DTC incoming connections
- DTC outgoing connections

Add-PrinterPort to a print server returns quickly. Add-Printer using that created port returns slowly (over a minute or two). SNMP turned off for the port. MMC shows print queue has been created successfully with all entered information. Powershell still sits without returning until over a minute later.

Running this command requires domain privileges to reset the computer object password. In cases where the secure channel with a domain controller is already established, a local administrator of a domain computer should have the permission to trigger the password change.

The following command achieves the desired result, albeit not in PowerShell: nltest /sc_change_pwd:[domain]

On a W2016 DC:
When I execute
get-localUser -Name *$
I get 65 Computer accounts

But when I execute

dsquery computer -name * -limit 0
I get the correct 66 Computer accounts

When I run
get-localUser -Name MissingComputerAccount$

I Get an Error
So get-localUser can't handle all accounts

So please fix this

With the "NetAdapter" group why do most of them not accept InterfaceIndex Number for selection? I would like to select my card by its Index so that even if its off / not active I can rename it, change its IP, powersettings etc. Lastly why can we not disable Netbios for the same cards this way?

please add timeout to "Test-NetConnection" see https://superuser.com/q/805621/216033