Smartsheet reports that nearly 60% of workers agree that they could save six or more hours a week by automating the repetitive aspects of their role. That’s time they could dedicate to growing their ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Automation is a critical aspect for many businesses, and there's a reason why. There's not one employee who'd like to waste their time with complicated operations—or add extra work to their already ...

PowerShell is Microsoft's robust scripting language and command-line shell, and it has become an indispensable tool for streamlining complex network management and task automation. Mastering ...

Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of the popular Microsoft scripting engine, forecasts where PowerShell is going and outlines containers' role in automation. As Microsoft and Chef Software Inc. forge ahead ...

You can still automate Let's Encrypt even if your system requires a DNS challenge. Using these PowerShell scripts and Amazon Web Services' DNS service Route 53 will do the trick. If you have been in ...

A step-by-step guide to help you deploy IIS and default Web sites using PowerShell in less than five minutes! Think about how many times you install IIS. Not much? Really? Consider platforms such as ...

Azure Automation can be an excellent PowerShell script orchestration tool. But as-is, you only have a limited number of PowerShell modules you can use in that environment. Luckily, though, we can ...

PowerShell has cmdlets for working with Web resources, including those up in the cloud. Let's take a look in this first of a three-part series. When PowerShell 3 came out along with Windows Server ...

There are several boring and redundant tasks you need to do on your Windows system during the day. For instance, renaming apps, moving files and folders, administration, database management, and ...