These four simple PowerShell scripts fix common Windows headaches and save time with quick, copy-and-paste commands.

Now that Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 have been released, this means PowerShell 4.0 is also finally here. You can also download and install it on older ...

What I'm trying to do is query all of our servers to see if FTP is an installed service. If it is, I want to have it report into a text file to give me the state of the service and its start mode, as ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) and cybersecurity partner agencies issued an advisory today recommending system administrators to use PowerShell to prevent and detect malicious activity on Windows ...

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Microsoft's latest major update to is PowerShell automation tool and scripting language, is generally available as of today, March 4. PowerShell 7, the successor to PowerShell Core 6.X, is available ...

It wasn't the most prominent topic at this week's TechEd conference in Houston, but PowerShell certainly wasn't left in the dust either. I caught up with Don Jones, author of Redmond magazine's ...

Web scraping tools gather a website's pertinent information for you to peruse or download. Learn how to create your own web ...

Microsoft’s mighty Windows administration framework gets even better with the help of these resources. Most are free, and the three for-fee tools are well worth the cost. Ah, PowerShell. A simple blue ...

In today’s cloud-centric world, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, ...

In the previous lesson I highlighted some of my favorite features in PowerShell 4.0. Here are a few more. These are items that I think you might want to use immediately in your PowerShell management ...

Microsoft on Tuesday released a "preview" test version of Windows Management Framework (WMF) 4.0, which opens up new PowerShell 4 capabilities for older Windows systems. The WMF 4.0 preview is a ...