To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...

PowerShell modules help IT professionals and business owners organize multiple scripts into a single, reusable package, making code easier to manage, share and maintain. While individual scripts work ...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell has been a long time coming. Windows has never enjoyed the powerful shell scripting environments that its Unix rivals have long included. That’s changed now with the ...

Most of the personal use PowerShell scripts that I have written over the years might best be described as utilitarian. In other words, those scripts do exactly what I need for them to do -- nothing ...

On Windows 10, the Task Scheduler is a useful tool that has been around for many years, and it provides a friendly graphical interface to create automated routines. When you use this tool, you can ...

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 ...

This simple script tamed my Downloads folder.

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...