Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...

Learn how to design and build your own interactive menus inside your PowerShell scripts. This will help non-PowerShell users easily navigate and use them.

An excellent PowerShell script is easy to troubleshoot when something goes wrong. When developing scripts, it's important to not just consider "working" a symbol of success but also that you have ...

Wouldn't it be cool if PowerShell could automatically write scripts so that you didn't have to? Believe it or not, it is possible. Of course the old saying that if something sounds too good to be true ...

When running PowerShell from automation tools or agents, operations requiring administrator privileges will fail silently. Sometimes no error is produced. You might think it succeeded, but in reality, ...

The cmdlet Measure-Command will test and evaluate your code to make sure it's as optimal as can be. As a PowerShell scripter for a long time, I've since graduated from how to write code to get the job ...

Another Powershell question. I hope Richard Berg is lurking somewhere. I'm making a Powershell script that uses PSEXEC. I want PSEXEC to run once for each computer name that's listed in a variable.

IntroductionWhen using applications or ZIP files downloaded from websites, you may see warnings when running the files, or some scripts and files may be restricted.This is often caused by information ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...