PowerShell scripts are great because they can be used to do almost anything. One of the limitations to PowerShell scripts, however, is that it isn't always practical to give a script to someone who ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need of ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

PowerShell modules allow you to combine multiple scripts to simplify code management, accessibility, and sharing. Scripts are useful, but they can become unwieldy over time as you create more and more ...

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...

System administrators and power users utilize Windows PowerShell to perform all sorts of advanced and administrative tasks. With PowerShell, administrators can execute powerful scripting programs or ...

Desired State Configuration (DSC) is an excellent tool to get control of your infrastructure. A core component of DSC is the DSC resource. When DSC was introduced, administrators had to create a ...

On Windows 10, the Task Scheduler is a useful tool that has been around for many years, and it provides a friendly graphical interface to create automated routines. When you use this tool, you can ...