Since 2006, Microsoft has been bundling the PowerShell command-line shell that administrators can use to manage their computers and other computers on a network. "Windows PowerShell is a Windows ...

In professional IT, everything happens at scale. It’s never just one PC that needs updates, it’s an entire office full of desktop machines. Similarly, you may need to purge files from dozens of ...

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Sometimes it’s easiest to learn something new simply by using it, and to my mind PowerShell is no exception. Often we discover new capabilities and features in looking at what tasks other people are ...

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 ...

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Scheduled tasks are a great way to automate things that need to happen at a specific time or to occur a more recurring time frame. Whether it is auditing things such as services or performing an ...