PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here’s a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

This PowerShell tutorial opens with an introduction to PowerShell scripting basics. It guides you through various topics, starting with launching PowerShell and preparing to run PowerShell scripts.

One of the hazards that Microsoft groups face when they launch their products is competition for attention from other Microsoft groups with bigger marketing budgets. Think about the poor Windows ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

Microsoft has greatly expanded the role of PowerShell in Windows server 2012. Although PowerShell has always offered at least some storage management capabilities, they have been greatly enhanced in ...

Using the .ForEach() method requires that we work with a collection, otherwise we will not have the option to use this method. Once we have a collection to work with, the next step is determining how ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...