Microsoft's recent move to open-source its once Windows-exclusive PowerShell appears to paying off, with the language now popping up in the top 50 of the Tiobe index of the world's most popular ...

Three years after releasing PowerShell Core for Linux and macOS, Microsoft has announced PowerShell 7, the newest version of PowerShell Core. Only in March, Microsoft released PowerShell Core 6.2 but ...

I came to programming from an odd direction. For about 15 years, I've been a Windows sysadmin. 4 years ago I learned Powershell to automate many of my tasks. Since then I've gotten very interested in ...

I find myself amazed at how many IT professionals still avoid the command line. Even if you're no longer a hands-on, technical IT practitioner, you've surely got some familiarity with it. The command ...

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more openness, Microsoft today said its popular and powerful PowerShell command-line ...

Command Prompt (CMD) has been around since Windows NT, and almost everyone who uses Windows is familiar with it. It is a powerful CLI tool that allows you to interact with your computer using ...

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

PowerShell Core, the version aimed at providing scripting capabilities across a number of platforms, will eventually supersede the Windows-only version. A beta is available now, with a full release ...

Whether you’re running servers or conducting cybersecurity analysis, automating tasks can save a lot of time. Microsoft's powerful scripting language, PowerShell, allows you to streamline your ...