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 ...

Adam Bertram is a 20-year IT veteran, blogger and freelance writer. Follow him on the social platform X @adbertram. Everyone learns PowerShell differently, but I recommend a ­three-step approach to ...

Are you a Windows administrator? Did you make a new year’s resolution to learn PowerShell this year? If so, you have come to the right place. In this piece, I will get you started by orienting you to ...

Out of nearly 2,000 cmdlets (and functions) on Windows 8, over 25 percent of them use the verb Get. The verb Get retrieves information. The Noun portion of the cmdlet specifies the information ...

Of course, when you’re working with system, you are going to be doing a lot of analysis and poking around with the processes that are running on the system. And no matter what the OS is, there are ...

PowerShell is a powerful command-line tool that enables system administrators and developers to automate tasks and manage systems more efficiently. While PowerShell is native to Windows, the latest ...

There are two ways of launching Windows PowerShell - as an administrator and as a normal user. It is a best practice when starting Windows PowerShell to start it with minimum rights. On Windows 8 (and ...

Just like any good tool, knowing the different ways to use the If statement will help your script in many ways. Every programming and scripting language has had some sort of way to perform a ...