Every now and again I see some people complaining about not getting the properties they want when using a PowerShell command.

For instance, someone was using the Get-Service command to query what was the “Startup Type” of WinRM service . For that the person used the following command:

Get-Service WinRM

which produces the following output:

As you can see, the “Startup Type” property that we can find on the user interface does not appear here!

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I’m working on a environment where I have to deal with multiple domains. The user’s password needs to be updated each 40/45 days (it depends on the domain).

Can you see the pain?

This means that every month and half I have to dedicate like 20 minutes to change my password on 10 different domains by logging in to a host that belongs to that domain to be able to change it.

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