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 ...

One of the best new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks, which can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to process ForEach-Object loops.

For example, in figure 4, I am setting the execution policy to unrestricted and then running my script. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 4. The execution policy must allow scripts to be run.

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...

About the Author Boe Prox is a Microsoft MVP in Windows PowerShell and a Senior Windows System Administrator. He has worked in the IT field since 2003, and he supports a variety of different platforms ...

The “ Simple HTTP api for executing PowerShell scripts ” is itself just a PowerShell script. So changing functionality just requires modifying a single file, no compilation needed.