We've been looking at some of the different syntax punctuation you are likely to run into in PowerShell. I'm trying to come up with analogies to help you understand, but sometimes, like any language, ...

In the second part of this three-part series, the Prof. PowerShell breaks down how brackets should and shouldn't be used. In the last lesson I tried to demystify when to use parentheses in PowerShell.

for($i = 1; $i -le 5; $i ++) { New-Variable -Name var$i -Value "foo" } If I wanted to then list/refer back to those variables without explicitly calling them (because ...

We get it. From the outside, PowerShell can appear to be an incredibly powerful tool that only the most hardened IT pros can wield. But that just is not the case. Petri Paavola and his 20-plus years ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...