Windows PowerShell has long been an IT administrator’s best friend — but only if you know how to use it properly. Created by Microsoft nearly two decades ago, this object-oriented automation engine ...

Have you ever noticed that if you include a variable within a PowerShell Write-Host statement, that variable is evaluated, even if you include the reference to the variable within the quotation marks?

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you. So, ...

You've heard of variables in PowerShell, right? How about reference variables? Maybe not. The reason is because a scripter can generally get by without them, but they do still have a purpose.

If you have used PowerShell for a while now, you probably know that there are a few ways to give PowerShell more of a multithreaded feel by using PowerShell jobs in the form of the *-job cmdlets as ...