Microsoft replaced the standard command prompt with Windows PowerShell — a much more powerful CLI-based tool that can be used for scripting and automating tasks. Along with automating complex or ...

PowerShell is one of Microsoft's preferred tools for managing Windows Servers. Although it's easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, PowerShell can just as easily be used to manage ...

Windows PowerShell has a built-in History feature that remembers all the commands you executed when using it. While it should remember the History of the active session, I see that it retains more ...

These 10 PowerShell commands will come in handy when you need to remotely manage computers on a domain or workgroup. Doing more with less is a common mantra bandied about in the workforce these days ...

Are you a Windows administrator? Did you make a new year’s resolution to learn PowerShell this year? If so, you have come to the right place. In this piece, I will get you started by orienting you to ...

I think it’s time to talk in depth about some of the most important features of PowerShell: Providers and modules. (Snap-ins have also been important, but they are being gradually phased out.) These ...

If you have used PowerShell for a while now, you probably know that there are a few ways to give PowerShell more of a multithreaded feel by using PowerShell jobs in the form of the *-job cmdlets as ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...