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Looking for a quick way to get the oldest file in a directory? Here is a quick and dirty method to do it with PowerShell…
dir f:\archive -recurse| ?{!($_.PSIsContainer)} | sort -property lastwritetime | select -first 1
The ?{!($_.PSIsContainer)} filter will leave sub-directories out of the search.

Those familiar with configuring batch command scripts in the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista Task Scheduler may be a little perplexed in how to run PowerShell scripts from the scheduler. The main difference is in the Action form parameters…
Program/script: Set to the PowerShell.exe path. This is typically C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe.
Add arguments: -nolog -command “&{D:\Scripts\MyScript.ps1 Param1 Param2}”. Note that [...]

Here are some of the special characters that can be used in Windows PowerShell output:

`0 — Null
`a — Alert
`b — Backspace
`n — New line
`r — Carriage return
`t — Horizontal tab
`’ — Single quote
`” — Double quote

Some of these characters are intended for use only from the Windows PowerShell prompt. For example, the special character `a [...]

If you are looking for a quick and simple way to search a text file for a certain string PowerShell has a very efficient method called Select-String. In its simplest form just use the following format…
if (select-string -pattern “findme” -path “D:\Scripts\test.txt”)
{
    Write-Host “Found It!”
}
In the case above I am searching the text file “text.txt” for the [...]

I needed to create a PowerShell script today that would return exit codes. Simply look it up on the internet you say. Well after 30 minutes of searching I did find the trick and thought embedding on here would ensure I could find it next time it was needed…

$host.SetShouldExit($exitcode)

$host is a PowerShell reserved variable so [...]