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 ...

Although Windows PowerShell is probably most commonly thought of as a command line environment for administrators, it can be used for more than just running commands. PowerShell can also be used to ...

PowerShell modules help IT professionals and business owners organize multiple scripts into a single, reusable package, making code easier to manage, share and maintain. While individual scripts work ...

Many people jump into PowerShell and immediately think they need to start writing scripts. That couldn't be further from the truth, and actually I believe that can be counter-productive. Without a ...

In this post, we will see how to use PowerShell Scripts to create & add Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Switch User, Hibernation Tiles to Windows 8.1/8 Start Menu/Screen. As you know Windows 8 has a Start ...

We get it. From the outside, PowerShell can appear to be an incredibly powerful tool that only the most hardened IT pros can wield. But that just is not the case. Petri Paavola and his 20-plus years ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you want to delete or create a scheduled task on Windows 11/10 using Windows PowerShell, this tutorial will help you do that. You do not have to open Task Scheduler to create the scheduled task.

I use Powershell's "custom-object" command to create custom objects with properties I want to save. But custom-object applies only to one variable. Is it possible to create a custom class, like in ...