PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

On Windows 11 (and Windows 10), PowerShell is a powerful command-line interface designed to run commands and scripts that automate tasks and manage system settings. While it serves a similar purpose ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

As you get more experienced writing PowerShell script there comes a time when you're not only concerned about functionality but best practices and performance as well. Since PowerShell is so flexible, ...

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line. Even though I've worked extensively ...

PowerShell combines the speed of the command line with the flexibility of a scripting language, making it a valuable Windows administration tool. Here are a few basic commands you'll want to master.