PowerShell is a powerful and versatile tool for both Windows sysadmins and hackers, who use it to build malicious scripts that avoid detection. This advice will make it harder for them to do so.

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PowerShell cmdlets offer an efficient way to identify network issues and resolve connectivity problems. This ebook looks at 10 of these troubleshooting time-savers. From the ebook: As Microsoft ...

A tool that can make PowerShell management easier and quicker would certainly be a blessing. PowerGUI not only comes with management ability for the core PowerShell environment (local system and ...

In the past, we had to use various means to understand how our network interface card (NIC) was configured, as well as see what IP address was assigned to it. Whether it was going through the GUI to ...

Here’s a cool resource for PowerShell newbies (and who these days isn’t at least dabbling with Microsoft’s young scripting language?): the Get-Scripting podcast. The podcast is up to Episode 6 in its ...

Microsoft’s mighty Windows administration framework gets even better with the help of these resources. Most are free, and the three for-fee tools are well worth the cost. Ah, PowerShell. A simple blue ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

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 ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Learn how to transform everyday PowerShell one-liners and batch scripts into advanced functions with validation, pipeline support and help. Understand how to organize reusable code into modules with ...