PowerShell is a robust scripting tool that lets you automate and customize your admin tasks. It can save you a ton of time—but it’s important to follow a few best practices as you develop your code.

Here’s a cool resource for PowerShell newbies (and who these days isn’t at least dabbling with Microsoft’s young scripting language?): the Get-Scripting podcast. The podcast is up to Episode 6 in its ...

Learn how to design and build your own interactive menus inside your PowerShell scripts. This will help non-PowerShell users easily navigate and use them.

It's not a new problem: An end user logs in to a Windows server using Remote Desktop Protocol and then forgets to log off. When a session remains open, it continues to consume resources on the server ...

Windows PowerShell offers an open-source administrative tool that allows IT professionals to automate tasks on a computer network for a more efficient system.

Mastering PowerShell Scripting, Fifth Edition, can help you overcome any fears and become proficient in navigating PowerShell's capabilities. This edition includes new chapters on debugging, ...

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

Adam Bertram is a 20-year IT veteran, blogger and freelance writer. Follow him on the social platform X @adbertram. Everyone learns PowerShell differently, but I recommend a ­three-step approach to ...

PowerShell is deeply integrated into the Windows operating system, so you can use PowerShell to look for underutilized areas of VDI. Here are a few basic methods that you can adapt to your own ...