When PowerShell made its public debut in November 2006, and became available for all modern Windows versions early in 2007, it had already been knocking around in experimental and beta form for more ...

Some IT professionals who use PowerShell regularly might think they know everything about the scripting language, but they'd be wrong. PowerShell has many undocumented or lesser-known features. You ...

Learn how to design and build your own interactive menus inside your PowerShell scripts. This will help non-PowerShell users easily navigate and use them.

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What is the "correct" way of doing this? I know that functions are declared using "{", but I have not found any definitive for shell scripts.

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

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 ...

Windows PowerShell offers an open-source administrative tool that allows IT professionals to automate tasks on a computer network for a more efficient system.

Parameterized SQL queries can make PowerShell tools more secure and reliable while preserving smart quotes, emojis and other complex input.