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 ...

Your source for the news, opinions, and reader reaction on the industry’s hottest controversy. This chapter brings you up to speed on the technical basics of PowerShell and how to use it, with a focus ...

Are you a Windows administrator? Did you make a new year’s resolution to learn PowerShell this year? If so, you have come to the right place. In this piece, I will get you started by orienting you to ...

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

Many people jump into PowerShell and immediately think they need to start writing scripts. That couldn't be further from the truth, and actually I believe that can be counter-productive. Without a ...

Just like any good tool, knowing the different ways to use the If statement will help your script in many ways. Every programming and scripting language has had some sort of way to perform a ...

Last night I was playing around with some of the Sysinternals tools and rediscovered a tool called Bginfo. For those who might not be familiar with Sysinternals, it is a collection of free tools ...

Staying up to date in the IT game is kind of a necessity for some. Anyone involved with system administration — or hoping to be — could benefit from Microsoft PowerShell, a powerful command-line shell ...

I use Powershell's "custom-object" command to create custom objects with properties I want to save. But custom-object applies only to one variable. Is it possible to create a custom class, like in ...