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 ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

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 ...

If you're going to work IT for any company that runs Windows — and even a few that don't — you're going to need to get familiar with PowerShell. The benefits are obvious: Once you've got a handle on ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Previously, WSUS included an option to import updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog site. Users had to use the WSUS admin user interface to import updates. Microsoft has replaced this method with ...

Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from command line automation, too. Here are 10 PowerShell commands you can use to ...

Keep your Windows sessions alive and ready with this PowerShell script Your email has been sent Those of us who rely on and administer Windows systems for work are well aware of the various benefits ...

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...

New guidance shows how to harden PowerShell and make it more difficult for threat actors to hijack for malicious purposes. Living off the land is not the title of a gardening book. It’s the goal of ...