PowerShell helps IT experts manage IIS web server farms with dozens or hundreds of app pools. Learn how to manage IIS application pools with PowerShell.

PowerShell is a vital task-automation and configuration management tool for Microsoft whose many features include making it possible for system administrators to connect to remote computers and run ...

Introduced with PowerShell v4, Desired State Configuration (DSC) was a significant shift in the way that changes are made with PowerShell. Administrators now could declare configuration declaratively ...

IT professionals likely met the October arrival of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with both joy and a heavy sigh. On one hand, I believe many organizations have been waiting for Windows 7 so ...

Every now and then, most especially, a system administrator will need to restart a server or system. Usually, you can Remote Shut down or Restart Windows through the graphical user interface – ...

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 ...