For many users, Windows isn't ready to use out of the box, and one of the most frustrating parts isn't the actual install itself, but everything that comes after. Fixing the bad defaults, renaming the ...

Stop doing manually what your PC has been able to automate since forever.

I advise against it. But if you must use a logon script to authenticate, here's how to get it done with PowerShell. In my PowerShell training classes or at conferences I inevitably face the question ...

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 ...

You had to see this one coming. After all, I wrote a book about it. However, I’m still amazed at the number of people that don’t know what PowerShell is. So, here is my pitch, hopefully people take ...

Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

Windows PowerShell is a powerful terminal from Microsoft which allows you to automate and script tasks on Windows machines and interact with many of the applications available on them. It is a huge ...

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Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...