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

Windows PowerShell has a built-in History feature that remembers all the commands you executed when using it. While it should remember the History of the active session, I see that it retains more ...

Your screen doesn't have to be PowerShell's only output device. As Brien shows, the Out verb lets you redirect PowerShell's output in a variety of useful ways. Based on some of the e-mails that I have ...

On Windows 10, the Task Scheduler is a useful tool that has been around for many years, and it provides a friendly graphical interface to create automated routines. When you use this tool, you can ...

If you're like me, you're in the PowerShell console a lot. I use PowerShell for all kinds of different tasks, and I'm always executing long commands that I always, inevitably, have to run again but ...

Many information technology (IT) professionals use Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to manage updates across all their Windows systems and other third-party software. When WSUS is paired with ...

PowerShell is a scripting language and an automation and configuration management framework built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. PowerShell is installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and Windows ...

Despite its weird name, splatting can be a really handy technique if you create a lot of PowerShell scripts. If you have worked with PowerShell for any length of time, you have no doubt seen instances ...

Robocopy is a built-in Windows 11 tool that allows you to copy files from one place to another. It’s a command-line tool, ...

With Windows 10, you can no longer do a quick-and-dirty scan for updates from the GUI without triggering the detection and installation of those updates. The same holds true for Server 2016 or Server ...