Recently someone asked me on Twitter about a way to retrieve the command history from another user's PowerShell session. That's a great question and I think I know where the user is coming from but ...

PowerShell is one of Microsoft's preferred tools for managing Windows Servers. Although it's easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, PowerShell can just as easily be used to manage ...

One of the appealing features of Windows PowerShell is that it can be extended. You are not limited to the commands that Microsoft ships. You can load additional commands and functionality via a ...

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line. Even though I've worked extensively ...

Not all applications are created with remote execution in mind. PowerShell provides several ways to invoke applications on ...

Since 2006, Microsoft has been bundling the PowerShell command-line shell that administrators can use to manage their computers and other computers on a network. "Windows PowerShell is a Windows ...

Many information technology (IT) professionals use Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to manage updates across all their Windows systems and other third-party software. When WSUS is paired with ...

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 ...

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...