Microsoft provides the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) as a tool to make working in PowerShell easier. In this blog post, I want to show you how to access and use this tool in ...

IT professionals likely met the October arrival of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with both joy and a heavy sigh. On one hand, I believe many organizations have been waiting for Windows 7 so ...

The ability to create and extend menus has been a huge quality of life improvement in the latest PowerShell version. If you work in PowerShell and write scripts, then you have most likely used the ...

I don't have room to cover everything in one lesson, but today I want to show you how you can customize the ISE to add your own functionality and menu choices. The ISE has a menu option called Add-Ons ...

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...

PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The latest releases of PowerShell are built on the current cross-platform .NET and support macOS and Linux alongside the ...

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 ...

If you can't use powershell_ise for some reason, just change the code inside the script block to be a bunch of these print statements and keep edit/running it until you get the info that tells you ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...