If you're going to work IT for any company that runs Windows — and even a few that don't — you're going to need to get familiar with PowerShell. The benefits are obvious: Once you've got a handle on ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

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 ...

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need of ...

Keep your Windows sessions alive and ready with this PowerShell script Your email has been sent Those of us who rely on and administer Windows systems for work are well aware of the various benefits ...

How to gather your vCenter inventory data with this VMware PowerShell script Your email has been sent As someone who administers a VMware virtual environment and has been through several company ...

Instead of twiddling your thumbs as you wait for a long-running script to complete, you can have PowerShell play a sound to alert you when it's done. I have always thought of PowerShell as being ...