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I am a desktop support person and trying learn both Sysinternals and PowerShell. I have grown to understand the power of both and now I am asking if the sysinternals commands can run within powershell. I have tried a few, but they do not seem to get along well. I also understand PowerShell much better than DOS. The dos window opens then closes when I run a sysinternals command from PowerShell, and I notice that there are many PowerShell commands that do a similar job as the sysinternals commands. There are still many sysinternals commands that are killer good to know and use, I would just like to execute them from the PowerShell ISE console, can that be done?

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user3770771
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    The short answer is yes... You should be more specific if you need help with a particular problem. – arco444 Jun 24 '14 at 11:05
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    One of the PowerShell MVPs did an article on this recently: http://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/2014/06/scraping-sysinternals/ – Tim Ferrill Jun 24 '14 at 12:26

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I am not sure if you are looking for something in specific, but if you are trying to get the output of the sysinternal commands in powershell then yes, since powershell's philosophy is to process objects and syinternal commands will get you text. Using a start-process with redirected outputs can help if you have problems with parsing the data live.

Many of the sysinternal utilities are graphical in nature, procmon is the only one I have automated so far but others can be worked out as well however only to capture information. You may write a sysinternals powershell module and automate the launches from the ISE console.

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