Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

Although Windows PowerShell is probably most commonly thought of as a command line environment for administrators, it can be used for more than just running commands. PowerShell can also be used to ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need of ...

Microsoft has released a fix for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices in relation to a BitLocker bypass security flaw. The company has developed two sample PowerShell scripts that will essentially allow ...

Variables are just about the most ubiquitous element inside any PowerShell script. Variables can easily be created and referenced inside your script. But sometimes you just need to test to see if they ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...