A simple four-line script unexpectedly returned a host of errors for Brien. The issue turned out to be deceptively simple. While writing my previous column, I ran into a really odd problem: I suddenly ...

I want to programmatically join a newly deployed Windows VM (VMware) to a domain. I have a simple PowerShell script that will do this, but there's a problem: I need the script to run the second time ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

You can run a simple PowerShell script to get the file size of files saved in various locations on a network. Simply enter the file path in one column of an Excel spreadsheet, with the Get-Childitem ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that helps Windows 10 users securely contribute their computer's unused processing power to Folding@home. Distributed-computing disease research project ...