When PowerShell made its public debut in November 2006, and became available for all modern Windows versions early in 2007, it had already been knocking around in experimental and beta form for more ...

Some IT professionals who use PowerShell regularly might think they know everything about the scripting language, but they'd be wrong. PowerShell has many undocumented or lesser-known features. You ...

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...

One of the most welcome new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks. This new parallel execution capability can drastically reduce the amount of time it ...

Microsoft introduced PowerShell with Windows 7. It is a powerful set of commands for operating system instructions. Scripts written in PowerShell are more like programs than batch files. Find out more ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Windows environment variables give system administrators access to a plethora of information about the Windows operating system. Separated into system and user-level scopes, default environment ...

When a PowerShell script fails in Task Scheduler, separate the trigger, action, result, and expected output.The target audience is administrators who run PowerShell scripts in Task Scheduler. This ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...