This article will focus on how to customize Windows Server PowerShell profiles. If PowerShell is your daily tool, you may want to create and customize your profiles. PowerShell profiles are basically ...

PowerShell has come a long way from its early days as a Windows-only automation tool. With the advent of PowerShell 7 and its cross-platform capabilities, IT professionals are being asked to do more ...

Let’s assume your default startup profile is set as Command Prompt, but you want to open Windows PowerShell. At such a moment, you can use the context menu option to open Windows PowerShell in Windows ...

On Windows 11 (and Windows 10), PowerShell is a powerful command-line interface designed to run commands and scripts that automate tasks and manage system settings. While it serves a similar purpose ...

Last year, I wrote a lesson on working with the ENV: PSDrive. I still encourage students to use $ENV:Computername to get the local computer name instead of using ...

I'm kind of a newb at this, so please be gentle if my code isn't optimal. I worked at this script most of the day yesterday, expanding functionality and thinking of instances that could mess it up. By ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

In PowerShell, an alias is a handy shortcut or command alternative. For example, instead of typing Get-ChildItem, you can type ls or dir. Aliases can act as a transition from other shells to ...