In the first of a new column featuring in-depth advice on Windows Servers, Brien Posey breaks down how you can create custom information dumps in PowerShell.

Here's how you'd save a PSCredential object to a file: Get-Credential | Export-CliXml -Path MyCredential.xml That's it! I'll now look at the XML file generated. Notice that the username (userhere) is ...

In the previous lesson I demonstrated how to use ConvertTo-XML to turn PowerShell data into a basic XML file. This XML file could be used outside of PowerShell. However, if you were trying out some of ...