What if your PC could take care of boring tasks for you? With Windows PowerShell, it can. Here's how I use PowerShell to automate everyday repetitive tasks that I would be less keen to do otherwise.

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 ...

Automation has become a key aspect for most businesses, and there's a good reason why. Most employees would rather avoid complicated operations and lighten their workloads, and automation tactics only ...

Do note that you have to launch Windows PowerShell as an administrator, otherwise, the commands will not execute and you will receive an error in PowerShell. Let’s ...

PowerShell automation to make the lives of IT easier is what it's all about for James Brundage, founder of Start-Automating. That's what compelled him and his team to create the PipeScript module, ...

Staying up to date in the IT game is kind of a necessity for some. Anyone involved with system administration — or hoping to be — could benefit from Microsoft PowerShell, a powerful command-line shell ...

Open Command Prompt or PowerShell and enter "wmic bios get serialnumber" to find your PC's serial number. Windows and System Information won't display your PC's serial number. If the command doesn't ...

What I'm trying to do is query all of our servers to see if FTP is an installed service. If it is, I want to have it report into a text file to give me the state of the service and its start mode, as ...