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Bypassing the Azure Portal and going straight to PowerShell will provide you with more options for managing Microsoft's cloud. Due to Microsoft's mission to provide services to a "cloud-first, ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

When PowerShell made its public debut in November 2006, and became available for all modern Windows versions early in 2007, it had already been knocking around in experimental and beta form for more ...

Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote the article and Brien Posey expanded it. The PowerShell parameter is a fundamental component of most PowerShell scripts. Parameters make it possible to ...

Create PowerShell functions only for reusable code, not unnecessary script fragmentation. Avoid over-engineering small PowerShell scripts that become difficult to read and maintain. Keep PowerShell ...

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 ...

The Redmond-based Microsoft Corporation has successfully turned on the PowerShell Module Browser site. Earlier this month, the Microsoft Docs team announced that the PowerShell Module Browser, a web ...

Learn how to use Microsoft’s programmers’ editor, Visual Studio Code, to get the most from the latest PowerShell releases. PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The ...