Using Windows Management Instrumentation makes it easy to pull information about the drives on your system or remote systems. Here's how. Managing drives is a very common thing that a system ...

One of the big advantages of using PowerShell as a scripting language is its use of objects. Since everything is an object in PowerShell, we can take advantage of structured data by calling properties ...

If you want to group parts of your code for debugging purposes or simple readability, the PowerShell ISE has the answer. Keeping your code organized is sometimes just as important as the code actually ...

Unfortunately, IT professionals have to deal with sensitive information all the time. That information could be in the form of passwords, proprietary company information or anything that you'd rather ...

There are a few ways that PowerShell can provide some sort of notification method to alert you when something happens such as a script completing or an issue is detected during a query. The most ...

There's two ways to accomplish this task: the wrong way and the right way. Here's how to do both. If there is one thing an administrator finds themselves doing, it is probably determining what ...

Get an accurate measurement of how long it takes to run a specific or set a timer for your script to run with these two tips. Suppose that you wanted to figure out how long a certain operation took ...

I'm sure we have all been there before in our career as a Windows administrator: One day your Web site is handling requests through https and the next day no one can access the site. What could have ...

If you have been using PowerShell for a while, or even just picked it up yesterday, you have no doubt used Where-Object and ForEach-Object at some point in your scripting experience. The beauty of ...

Just recently, Microsoft has made it a lot easier to create new shares by avoiding cumbersome UI navigation and going straight through PowerShell. Working with Windows shares, you can easily create a ...

Whether it is monitoring for files and folders being updated in a specific location or you want to set up a sort of Dropbox to dump files in, the options for doing any sort of monitoring against a ...

If you are not familiar with JSON, it stands for Java Script Object Notation and is an open standard format that uses human readable text for data interchanges. Despite its name, it is separate to ...