A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

PowerShell scripts reduce the effort in running repetitive tasks. If you frequently execute scripts at pre-defined times or specified time intervals, you may want an efficient way of not having to ...

Not all applications are created with remote execution in mind. PowerShell provides several ways to invoke applications on ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

Lets say I'm going to have 50 various PowerShell scripts to do "stuff".<BR><BR>All of this work is being done for a single application and that application uses 3 different SQL Server 05 (soon to be ...

Want to get your day started more quickly? A simple PowerShell script can go a long way, and here's how I created one myself.

Wouldn't it be cool if PowerShell could automatically write scripts so that you didn't have to? Believe it or not, it is possible. Of course the old saying that if something sounds too good to be true ...

You sit, patiently waiting. Staring hopefully at a console screen while the cursor blinks repeatedly. You typed in the command or executed your script as you’ve done countless times before, and while ...

Windows environment variables give system administrators access to a plethora of information about the Windows operating system. Separated into system and user-level scopes, default environment ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

Unfortunately, IT professionals have to deal with sensitive information all the time. That information could be in the form of passwords, proprietary company information or anything that you'd rather ...