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 ...

PowerShell 7.1, touted by Microsoft as a "major update" to the scripting language, reached general availability this week. PowerShell 7.1 is based on .NET 5, which also was released this week. In ...

When Microsoft developed PowerShell (PS) in November 2006, the aim was to marry a command-line based interface and a scripting language to handle task automation and configuration management of ...

This is why a handy PowerShell module called PSScriptAnalyzer was introduced by Microsoft. PSScriptAnalyzer is a free module that allows you to scan your scripts or modules for coding best practices.