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.

For example, let's say you want to restart a service across 5 PCs. In Bash, you'd need SSH access, a shared key, and a loop.

A simple four-line script unexpectedly returned a host of errors for Brien. The issue turned out to be deceptively simple. While writing my previous column, I ran ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

In today’s cloud-centric world, we’re seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that helps Windows 10 users securely contribute their computer's unused processing power to Folding@home. Distributed-computing disease research project ...

In one of our earlier post, we talked about removing Security Questions from Windows. This post offers an alternative way of disabling the same via a PowerShell script. Update-AllUsersQA is a ...

I want to programmatically join a newly deployed Windows VM (VMware) to a domain. I have a simple PowerShell script that will do this, but there's a problem: I need the script to run the second time ...

I wrote a simple powershell script that will go into Event viewer on remote host and grab the log from it. The problem on hand is that the client is unable to connect to server with new-pssesion ...