PowerShell is an object-oriented automation engine and scripting language with an interactive command-line shell that Microsoft developed to help IT professionals configure systems and automate ...

Although PowerShell is a command-line environment, it is possible to create GUI-based PowerShell scripts. With examples ranging from simple to complex, GUI-based PowerShell scripts can be a great ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line. Even though I've worked extensively ...

Administrators may be asked to search SharePoint and OneDrive sites for various reasons. It may be for reporting or analysis. This script utilizes the PnP.PowerShell module to find files by name, ...

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell has been a long time coming. Windows has never enjoyed the powerful shell scripting environments that its Unix rivals have long included. That’s changed now with the ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...

Microsoft’s PowerShell is a free tool that you can use to run your Windows PC installs, but you need to learn how to make the ...

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.