PowerShell Tips

04-20-2021 in Blog

Useful PowerShell Tips

Useful PowerShell Tips

• Objective
• Prerequisites
• Useful PowerShell Tips
  • Check if PowerShell is running in 32-bit or 64-bit process.
  • Check Powershell Version
• Summary
  • Please leave a comment and I will respond back

Objective

To document some useful PowerShell tips that I’ve come across.

Prerequisites

General Windows Operating System Knowledge

PowerShell version 5 or higher

Useful PowerShell Tips

Check if PowerShell is running in 32-bit or 64-bit process.

Method #1

• If output = True, PowerShell is running as a 64-bit Process

[System.Environment]::Is64BitProcess

Method #2

• If output = 8, PowerShell is running as a 64-bit Process
• If output = 4, PowerShell is running as a 32-bit Process

[intptr]::size

Check Powershell Version

$PSVersionTable

Summary

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