What is PowerShell? Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful administrative tool that can help you automate tasks for your computer and network.

Most of the personal use PowerShell scripts that I have written over the years might best be described as utilitarian. In other words, those scripts do exactly what I need for them to do -- nothing ...

Just like any good tool, knowing the different ways to use the If statement will help your script in many ways. Every programming and scripting language has had some sort of way to perform a ...

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 have spent much time working with PowerShell, you are probably familiar with the PowerShell pipeline. Represented by the pipe symbol (found on the backslash key on most keyboards), the pipeline ...

If you get the Access to the path is denied error output when you run the PowerShell Export-CSV cmdlet on a Windows client or server machine, then the easy fixes we ...

If you need to tag several instances (think bulk!), the filtering capabilities of PowerShell can make the process a lot easier. Although you can tag an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance ...