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.

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...

More of you are getting used to Windows PowerShell and realizing its advantages. With that in mind, this month's column is going to be a long one. This is a lightning overview of Windows PowerShell ...

Copying files in PowerShell is easy. Copy-Item is your friend. Simply specify the source and destination and you're done. The same even goes for entire folders. It's easy to copy entire folders or all ...

Most of the personal use PowerShell scripts that I have written over the years might best be described as utilitarian. In other words, those scripts do exactly what I need for them to do -- nothing ...

Jesus Vigo covers how systems administrators leverage PowerShell cmdlets to manage Active Directory networks, including the devices and users it services. Microsoft’s PowerShell (PS) management ...

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 ...

I have PDFs in a directory that I would like to sort based on a portion of their filename. I've come up with a solution (cobbled together from Google searches) that mostly works but am wondering if ...