Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article, and Reda Chouffani has expanded it. Even though administrators can accomplish many tasks with ad hoc PowerShell commands, learning how to ...

Learn how to use Microsoft’s programmers’ editor, Visual Studio Code, to get the most from the latest PowerShell releases. PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The ...

Microsoft updated its PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code, continuing a months-long re-architecture to improve the stability of its editor and debugger, which was identified as the No. 1 user ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here’s a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...

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 ...