PowerShell scripts are useful for performing management tasks that are either complex or that need to be repeatable. For example, suppose that you routinely use PowerShell to create new user ...

Learn how to pass spreadsheet values as parameters to a PowerShell script for more dynamic and functional automation.

Scripts in PowerShell are basically just text files with the special filename extension of ps1. To create a script, you enter a bunch of PowerShell commands in a sequence in a new Notepad file (or ...

On Windows 11, PowerShell is a command-line interface (CLI) developed by Microsoft to execute commands and run scripts. In a way, it's similar to Command Prompt, but this CLI offers more tools and ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

I use Powershell's "custom-object" command to create custom objects with properties I want to save. But custom-object applies only to one variable. Is it possible to create a custom class, like in ...

With PowerShell commands, you can create, modify, and delete scheduled tasks on Windows 10. In this guide, I'll teach you how.

You can use this PowerShell script to create a desktop shortcut, which you can also pin to your taskbar, to open UWP or Microsoft Store apps in Windows 11/10.

Use the built-in IExpress.exe tool to easily convert PowerShell script (PS1) file to EXE in Windows 11/10. There are third-party tools available too.

There are a few ways that PowerShell can provide some sort of notification method to alert you when something happens such as a script completing or an issue is detected during a query. The most ...