PowerShell has a reputation for being complicated, and for good reason. Luckily, there is a lot of help available -- if you know where to look for it. PowerShell is one of those things that I use ...

If you are still clinging to the old DOS command prompt, you are not alone. There are still some things you can do quickly using the command prompt. In addition, you may already be familiar with the ...

Perhaps the biggest benefit of writing advanced functions in Windows PowerShell is the ability to create a function that for all practical purposes behaves just like a cmdlet. You can accomplish this ...

One of the features of PowerShell that left many people wondering why it wasn't included earlier was local account management. Every Windows system has local accounts and being able to add, remove and ...

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Jesus Vigo covers how systems administrators leverage PowerShell cmdlets to manage Active Directory networks, including the devices and users it services. Microsoft’s PowerShell (PS) management ...

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, ...