Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

Practical App PowerShell: An In-Depth Scripting Crash Course This extended Windows PowerShell column will jump-start your knowledge of this powerful technology. By Don Jones 12/01/2011 More of you ...

What is Windows PowerShell? PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language built into Windows that can help you automate administrative and repetitive tasks.

If you want to automate a task, just create a PowerShell script and schedule it. To know more, check out the instructions mentioned here.

Administrative Automation So, if Windows PowerShell isn't a scripting language, then what is it? I submit that Windows PowerShell 2.0 is a text-based administrative automation solution.

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 ...

In PowerShell ISE, ISE stands for Integrated Scripting Environment. Hence, PowerShell ISE also comprises some advanced features that Windows PowerShell does not have.

Dot-sourcing is a way to do just that. Dot-sourcing is a concept in PowerShell that allows you to reference code defined in one script in a separate one. This is useful when you're working on a ...

Microsoft Windows' PowerShell tool is a powerful scripting and administration environment that's largely replaced the traditional Windows command line, which dates back to MS-DOS. You can start a ...

Prof. Powershell Start Me Up: Scripting a Logon with PowerShell I advise against it. But if you must use a logon script to authenticate, here's how to get it done with PowerShell. By Jeffery Hicks ...