Microsoft replaced the standard command prompt with Windows PowerShell — a much more powerful CLI-based tool that can be used for scripting and automating tasks. Along with automating complex or ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, in a perfect world, we'd all just use cmdlets and functions. After all, the batch file days are behind us! Unfortunately, that's not always possible or even the best ...

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

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 ...

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 ...

PowerShell is a vital task-automation and configuration management tool for Microsoft whose many features include making it possible for system administrators to connect to remote computers and run ...

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web ...

BurntToast is an open-source PowerShell module that generates standard toast notifications that appear in the bottom-right ...

Windows PowerShell is powerful and can do almost everything that a person wants on his computer. However, it is a command-line tool and does not have a GUI. However, it can be helpful when the ...