Trying to make a template of a monitoring script. The script has to do these things: -Check a value every minute. The value can be anything: the size of a file; an entry in a database; the saturation ...

Wouldn't it be cool if PowerShell could automatically write scripts so that you didn't have to? Believe it or not, it is possible. Of course the old saying that if something sounds too good to be true ...

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Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.