Are all of the default PowerShell cmdlets exactly the way you like them to be? Do they have all of the parameters you think should be standard and have no extras? Probably not. We all have our quirks ...

Going forward, PowerShell will be Microsoft's preferred mechanism for managing Windows Server and other Microsoft server products. PowerShell is a command line interface in which administrative ...

Here's how to make the jump from simple lines of code to something that's a lot more useful. After reading countless blogs online, purging through hundreds of pages of books, you feel comfortable ...

Have you ever been given an application and instructed to run it on various computers and systems, only to realize that it wasn’t built for multiple hosts? After all, some apps are designed to be ...

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If you work in IT, chances are PowerShell is already part of your daily routine. You might use it to check a service, pull system information, or automate a task that would otherwise take several ...

For a long time, we have been zipping files and folders using various approaches in PowerShell that range from the 7zip libraries to using System.IO.Compression.FileSystem or the PowerShell Community ...

First things first, modules in PowerShell v2.0 rule! Next to remoting, this is my second most favorite feature in the v2.0 lineup. And, with the CTP3 release, modules are even better, faster, stronger ...

Windows PowerShell has long been an IT administrator’s best friend — but only if you know how to use it properly. Created by Microsoft nearly two decades ago, this object-oriented automation engine ...

PowerShell is a powerful tool to master. Here’s our step-by-step guide to getting familiar with Windows’ über language If you’ve wrestled with Windows 10, you’ve undoubtedly heard of PowerShell. If ...