{"id":5991,"date":"2015-09-18T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2015-09-13T20:36:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T19:36:26","slug":"short-takes-checking-your-ip-in-google-writing-to-a-text-file-in-powershell-and-checking-which-security-zone-a-website-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/short-takes-checking-your-ip-in-google-writing-to-a-text-file-in-powershell-and-checking-which-security-zone-a-website-is-in.htm","title":{"rendered":"Short takes: checking your IP in Google; writing to a text file in PowerShell; and confirming which IE security zone a website uses in Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another eclectic mix of snippets merged into a single blog post&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s my IP address?<\/h3>\n<p>Ever want to check the IP address of the connection you&#8217;re using? There are lots of websites out there that will tell you, or you can just type <code>what is my IP<\/code> into Google (other search engines are available&#8230; but they won&#8217;t directly return this information).<\/p>\n<h3>Writing output to a text file in PowerShell<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes, when working in PowerShell, it&#8217;s useful to pipe the output to a file, for example to send to someone else for analysis. For this, the <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/library\/hh849882.aspx\">Out-File<\/a> cmdlet comes in useful (<code>| Out-File filename.txt<\/code>) , <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/18469104\/write-output-to-text-file-in-powershell\">as described on StackOverflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Internet Explorer status bar no longer shows security zone for a site<\/h3>\n<p>Last week, I was trying to work out which security zone a site was in last week (because I wanted to see if it was in the Intranet zone, whilst tracking down some spurious authentication prompts) but recent versions of Internet Explorer don&#8217;t show this information in the status bar. The workaround is to right click any black space in the website and select Properties. Alternatively, use <code>Alt + F + R<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/ie11-page-properties.png?resize=276%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Check the security zone in Internet Explorer\" width=\"276\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another eclectic mix of snippets merged into a single blog post&#8230; What&#8217;s my IP address? Ever want to check the IP address of the connection you&#8217;re using? There are lots of websites out there that will tell you, or you can just type what is my IP into Google (other search engines are available&#8230; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/short-takes-checking-your-ip-in-google-writing-to-a-text-file-in-powershell-and-checking-which-security-zone-a-website-is-in.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Short takes: checking your IP in Google; writing to a text file in PowerShell; and confirming which IE security zone a website uses in Internet Explorer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[413,350,22],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-internet-explorer","tag-powershell","tag-networks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Short takes: checking your IP in Google; 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