How to use PowerShell objects, how to tease more info and functionality out of them and how objects can be useful in scripting scenarios. One of the things most people do not realize about PowerShell, ...

I'm sure you've heard me stress repeatedly that PowerShell is all about the objects and specifically objects in a pipeline. This concept can take some time to get your head around. Beginners will try ...

Looking at the signature of a file quickly lets you know whether that file is really what it claims to be. Here's how to tap PowerShell to figure out the file ...

Managing permissions on files and folders can be an enormous time drain for IT professionals. Users have home folders, departments have proprietary folders, projects have unique folders — the list ...

PowerShell sometimes displays far more information than you can comfortably digest. Thankfully, there are ways to display only the information that really matters. One of the things I have always ...

Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) is a safe way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. While PowerShell does not offer built-in support for SFTP, you can add this functionality using ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...