In our day-to-day activities of working with PowerShell, it is likely that you have been asked to generate a report of some kind and provide that to your boss, or even your boss's boss. Either way, ...

In the next part of our small series on creating HTML reports using PowerShell (here's part 1), we will extend what we are doing with our reporting by adding some extra bells and whistles to our ...

Bit of a mixed bag question. Created a dataset in PowerShell saved to an array. I'm building an HTML table off it to use for an HTML-format email. Easy right? Table works. Email works. My CSS styles ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s mighty Windows administration framework gets even better with the help of these resources. Most are free, and the three for-fee tools are well worth the cost. Ah, PowerShell. A simple blue ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

So, I have been working on building a PowerShell based notification engine for a favorite MSFT product of mine called Certificate Lifecycle Manager (kidding!). Anyhow, I wanted to make the emails ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...

In the 12 years since Microsoft released PowerShell, it has become the de facto tool to dependably administer servers. In August of 2016, it was made open-source and cross-platform with the ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...