One of the most welcome new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks. This new parallel execution capability can drastically reduce the amount of time it ...

Using the .ForEach() method requires that we work with a collection, otherwise we will not have the option to use this method. Once we have a collection to work with, the next step is determining how ...

New to the ISE are collapsible regions, so that you don't have to scroll through dozens of lines of scripts. The new version of the PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment offers a number of ...

Wouldn't it be cool if PowerShell could automatically write scripts so that you didn't have to? Believe it or not, it is possible. Of course the old saying that if something sounds too good to be true ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A lousy title perhaps, but I just don't know the word for what I want to do (and if I even should attempt to do it that way). I'd like to write a script where I via a variable can set switches for ...