Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

More on This Topic: Exploring PowerShell, Part 1: Using Get-Command Our next stop on our exploration of using PowerShell involves learning more about what Get-Help can do for you.

When Microsoft developed PowerShell (PS) in November 2006, the aim was to marry a command-line based interface and a scripting language to handle task automation and configuration management of ...

Prof. Powershell PowerShell Command History Lesson Part 1 By Jeffery Hicks 03/25/2014 Recently someone asked me on Twitter about a way to retrieve the command history from another user's PowerShell ...

On Windows, when I want a command line, I can choose between the native PowerShell or install the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I prefer the latter when I'm on Windows. Here's why I reach for a ...

PowerShell providers are drivers for PowerShell to navigate things besides the file system. For their part, modules are, at this point, far and away the most common type of PowerShell ...

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Microsoft this week announced a preview of PowerShell Crescendo, a new module for PowerShell that aims to wrap so-called 'native' utility applications via the familiar verb-noun syntax used in ...

Crescendo amplifies the command-line experience of the original tool to include object output for the PowerShell pipeline, privilege elevation, and integrated help information.