PowerShell has taken the Windows command line to the next level. It’s not just for automating admin tasks, but also for troubleshooting common Windows issues. Whether you’re managing files, setting up ...

What I'm trying to do is query all of our servers to see if FTP is an installed service. If it is, I want to have it report into a text file to give me the state of the service and its start mode, as ...

PowerShell is one of Microsoft's preferred tools for managing Windows Servers. Although it's easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, PowerShell can just as easily be used to manage ...

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 ...

Do note that you have to launch Windows PowerShell as an administrator, otherwise, the commands will not execute and you will receive an error in PowerShell. Let’s ...

One of the appealing features of Windows PowerShell is that it can be extended. You are not limited to the commands that Microsoft ships. You can load additional commands and functionality via a ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...