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.

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...

Microsoft this week described how to use PowerShell to better manage Windows 10 updates when using the Windows Update for Business' new Deployment Service addition. Windows Update for Business is an ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Recently, I have been hard at work building the lab environment that will be used for a video training course that I am about to create. Like many of the lab environments that I have used in the past, ...

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a common, free product from Microsoft that allows system administrators to apply the latest software patches from Microsoft on a mass scale. WSUS offers a ...

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 ...

While Windows Updates works smoothly most of the time, users may at times encounter issues while running Windows Update – like for instance – despite updates being available, the service might not ...

Have older Windows systems on your network? You can give them PowerShell 5's event logging capabilities even if they run Windows 7. You might think that something as basic as PowerShell, Microsoft’s a ...