Scripts in PowerShell are basically just text files with the special filename extension of ps1. To create a script, you enter a bunch of PowerShell commands in a sequence in a new Notepad file (or ...

What PowerShell can do, however, is to build a script that is based on your recent activity. Let's suppose for a moment that you are manually performing some kind of long, tedious task by using ...

PowerShell modules allow you to combine multiple scripts to simplify code management. Learn step-by-step instructions for creating and using these modules.

Using GPEDIT or REGEDIT, make Windows run PowerShell scripts first at logon, logoff, startup, and shutdown before the OS runs other scripts.

PowerShell scripts are useful for performing management tasks that are either complex or that need to be repeatable. For example, suppose that you routinely use PowerShell to create new user ...

Web scraping tools gather a website's pertinent information for you to peruse or download. Learn how to create your own web scraping tool in PowerShell.

With Pester, PowerShell developers can quickly build tests just like the "big boy" software developers do. If you're just a system administrator that's been writing PowerShell scripts for a while, the ...

I ran into a discussion a while back with a collegue that claimed that a lot of clients don't allow us to set up PowerShell scripts for different scheduled maintanence tasks on their servers. I ...