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.

Automation is a critical aspect for many businesses, and there's a reason why. There's not one employee who'd like to waste their time with complicated operations—or add extra work to their already ...

When it comes to being productive in virtually any industry, expediency is key. And the best way to expedite your projects while cutting down on your work time is to automate as many tasks as possible ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

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 ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Microsoft is on its way toward enabling full automation of Azure tasks via PowerShell workflow scripts. Complete PowerShell automation of Microsoft Azure will be possible when Microsoft releases its ...

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Azure Automation can be an excellent PowerShell script orchestration tool. But as-is, you only have a limited number of PowerShell modules you can use in that environment. Luckily, though, we can ...