With the advent of Windows Server 10, PowerShell is becoming more important for admins to master, or at least learn. Here's how to get started.

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

Lets say I'm going to have 50 various PowerShell scripts to do "stuff".All of this work is being done for a single application and that application uses 3 different SQL Server 05 (soon to be 08 ...

Microsoft actually classifies scripts as a type of PowerShell modules. When imported, modules allow administrators to execute code that does not exist within the core command set.

Windows makes it possible to schedule PowerShell scripts to run at a predetermined time. The mechanism of choice for automating PowerShell scripts is the Windows Task Scheduler.

PowerShell vs. SQL Server Management Studio When I (along with many other people) had a lot of trouble trying to install SQL Server Management Studio in an attempt to switch from the SQL Server 2008 ...

I have a lot of Powershell scripts that I run in different environments. Now, I have lately started to use functionality that is available in v3 and up. However, when running these scripts where ...

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 ...