What if your PC could take care of boring tasks for you? With Windows PowerShell, it can. Here's how I use PowerShell to automate everyday repetitive tasks that I would be less keen to do otherwise.

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...

Many information technology (IT) professionals use Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to manage updates across all their Windows systems and other third-party software. When WSUS is paired with ...

Microsoft this week described how to use PowerShell to better manage Windows 10 updates when using the Windows Update for Business' new Deployment Service addition. Windows Update for Business is an ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Recently, I have been hard at work building the lab environment that will be used for a video training course that I am about to create. Like many of the lab environments that I have used in the past, ...

I'm able to execute wbadmin start backup -backupTarget \backup-device\file_backup\ include:d Folder1,"d Very Important" -vsscopy -quiet via cmd.exe just fine. However ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that allows you to quickly start donating your CPU cycles to the Folding@Home project by deploying the program in the Windows 10 Sandbox. The Folding@Home ...

We will explain the following methods to install and uninstall Windows PowerShell ISE: Installing PowerShell ISE via Windows Optional Features. Uninstalling PowerShell via Windows Optional features.

Have older Windows systems on your network? You can give them PowerShell 5's event logging capabilities even if they run Windows 7. You might think that something as basic as PowerShell, Microsoft’s a ...