Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

Don Jones, TechMentor presenter and cochair, discusses some of his observations on how people are using PowerShell, and how they could do a better job. If you ever need to know more about PowerShell, ...

If you want to run Windows PowerShell scripts first at user logon, logoff, startup, and shutdown, follow these steps. Using the Local Group Policy Editor and Registry Editor, you can prioritize ...

Windows PowerShell is a powerful terminal from Microsoft which allows you to automate and script tasks on Windows machines and interact with many of the applications available on them. It is a huge ...

Clue in users and gain insight into the status of executed cmdlets and functions by adding progress bars to your PowerShell (PS) scripts. Gartner releases 4 trends that will impact cloud, data centers ...

In the 12 years since Microsoft released PowerShell, it has become the de facto tool to dependably administer servers. In August of 2016, it was made open-source and cross-platform with the ...

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

Here's how I use Linux to automate Windows tasks.

For many users, Windows isn't ready to use out of the box, and one of the most frustrating parts isn't the actual install itself, but everything that comes after. Fixing the bad defaults, renaming the ...