PowerShell is a powerful and versatile tool for both Windows sysadmins and hackers, who use it to build malicious scripts that avoid detection. This advice will make it harder for them to do so.

A tool that can make PowerShell management easier and quicker would certainly be a blessing. PowerGUI not only comes with management ability for the core PowerShell environment (local system and ...

PowerShell cmdlets offer an efficient way to identify network issues and resolve connectivity problems. This ebook looks at 10 of these troubleshooting time-savers. From the ebook: As Microsoft ...

Let's launch a PowerShell script that goes beyond replication health to evaluate Hyper-V failover readiness by checking storage, networking, memory, VM configuration and other key conditions that ...

Here’s a cool resource for PowerShell newbies (and who these days isn’t at least dabbling with Microsoft’s young scripting language?): the Get-Scripting podcast. The podcast is up to Episode 6 in its ...

In the past, we had to use various means to understand how our network interface card (NIC) was configured, as well as see what IP address was assigned to it. Whether it was going through the GUI to ...

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 ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Four scripts to fix them all ...