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Whoever invented the phrase "work smarter, not harder" must have been dreaming about the day when we could all just automate great portions of our work and let tasks take place on their own, and that ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Microsoft is on its way toward enabling full automation of Azure tasks via PowerShell workflow scripts. Complete PowerShell automation of Microsoft Azure will be possible when Microsoft releases its ...

Windows Update is one of the parts of Windows 11 that people love to criticize the most. Forced updates and reboots can happen at the worst of times, so the frustration is understandable, but it is an ...

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a common, free product from Microsoft that allows system administrators to apply the latest software patches from Microsoft on a mass scale. WSUS offers a ...

Jeffrey Snover, the inventor of the popular Microsoft scripting engine, forecasts where PowerShell is going and outlines containers' role in automation. As Microsoft and Chef Software Inc. forge ahead ...