Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

PowerShell scripts reduce the effort in running repetitive tasks. If you frequently execute scripts at pre-defined times or specified time intervals, you may want an efficient way of not having to ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

PowerShell seems to have the ability to automate just about anything. Active Directory (AD) is no different. By downloading a freely available PowerShell module, an IT admin can manage every facet of ...

Have you ever been given an application and instructed to run it on various computers and systems, only to realize that it wasn’t built for multiple hosts? After all, some apps are designed to be ...

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...