Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article, and Reda Chouffani has expanded it. Even though administrators can accomplish many tasks with ad hoc PowerShell commands, learning how to ...

While there's no shortage of useful tools in Windows, you may not be making use of the most useful one, Windows PowerShell. The Microsoft PowerShell Certification Bundle gets you up to speed on this ...

Short version: I'm not very familiar with PowerShell (or scripting in general). At work I've used an LLM to generate some PowerShell scripts that have made my job easier. I want to better understand ...

Simply experimenting with an existing PowerShell script is an effective way to build expertise. Just make sure to do it inside a virtual machine. Although Windows PowerShell is an unbelievably useful ...

Nothing can beat automating daily work tasks. IT pros and system administrators — who may be learning Windows Powershell Scripting for the first time — can significantly increase their productivity ...

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 ...

Here’s a cool resource for PowerShell newbies (and who these days isn’t at least dabbling with Microsoft’s young scripting language?): the Get-Scripting podcast. The podcast is up to Episode 6 in its ...

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...

Have you ever noticed that if you include a variable within a PowerShell Write-Host statement, that variable is evaluated, even if you include the reference to the variable within the quotation marks?

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Windows is ubiquitous in the working world and a more powerful tool than you might think. The Microsoft PowerShell Certification Bundle offers three courses to show you how to make Windows work for ...