Useful PowerShell Commands

Get-ComputerInfo

Accessing the properties of a command

Get-Computerinfo -Properties csusername
Get-Computerinfo -Properties csusername | Get-Member
Get-ComputerInfo | Format-List OsType,osName,csusername

Write output to the screen, like Echo

Write-Output "Hello World" 

Read Text file

Get-Content filename.txt

Rename-Computer
Restart-Computer
Get-Date
Get-TimeZone

Import csv file The pipe it to another function

import-csv .\filename.csv | 

Rename Files using csv list / excel file (exported to CSV)

If you execute the script in the same directory as the files, you don't have to add the full path, but if it's in a different directory the the full path is needed

You can start with an excel file. Header has to be Path and NewName

Path refers to the Old Filename and NewName is the New Filename

The reason why we add the Path, and NewName is because the Rename-Item function accepts a Path string and a NewName string

import-csv ./rename.csv | rename-item

The CSV File

Path,NewName
dog.jpg,222-dog.jpg
rat.jpg,333-rat.jpg
cat.jpg,111-cat.jpg