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 ...

System administrators and power users utilize Windows PowerShell to perform all sorts of advanced and administrative tasks. With PowerShell, administrators can execute powerful scripting programs or ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, in a perfect world, we'd all just use cmdlets and functions. After all, the batch file days are behind us! Unfortunately, that's not always possible or even the best ...

Command Prompt (CMD) has been around since Windows NT, and almost everyone who uses Windows is familiar with it. It is a ...

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

Your screen doesn't have to be PowerShell's only output device. As Brien shows, the Out verb lets you redirect PowerShell's output in a variety of useful ways. Based on some of the e-mails that I have ...

You may not think too often about how text is displayed in your PowerShell console, but under the covers, there's quite a bit going on. Think about all of the commands you have the ability to run in ...

Instead of viewing data in a static list, use PowerShell's grid view capability to manipulate how your data is displayed. PowerShell is well-known for its ability to display data in rows and columns.

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful scripting language and administrative framework for Windows, and one of the key elements that makes it so powerful is the pipeline — the assembly line of data and ...