There has been something bugging me lately about PowerShell. Actually, this something has probably always bugged me. But, when I saw this series: “Hyper-V WMI Using PowerShell Scripts” on the ...

PowerShell 3.0 brings us into the world of CIM which I think you'll find to be a much easier approach for systems management using WMI. On the surface the syntax hasn't really changed much. We have a ...

The fourth part of the CIM cmdlets blog series focuses on creating a duplicate CIM session on a different PowerShell unit. The new CIM cmdlets in PowerShell 3.0 rely on a remoting feature called a CIM ...

A common pain point in an information technology (IT) administrator’s career is managing user profiles. User profiles are a ubiquitous part of a Windows IT pro’s life, especially those who manage ...

Most of us have dealt with hardware that stays in service well past its planned end-of-life date or that, for reasons of budget and bureaucracy, doesn’t even make it into service until well into its ...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell has been a long time coming. Windows has never enjoyed the powerful shell scripting environments that its Unix rivals have long included. That’s changed now with the ...