I find myself amazed at how many IT professionals still avoid the command line. Even if you're no longer a hands-on, technical IT practitioner, you've surely got some familiarity with it. The command ...

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

First released in 2006, Microsoft PowerShell is a scripting language designed specifically for Windows. It has many uses, from troubleshooting your machine to automating everyday tasks. The latest ...

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 ...

You can use PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Windows and other operating systems, like organizing data, searching for files or fetching data from the Internet. You can't actually run ...

I've been working on a Windows Scripting Host/VBS script to grab some logfiles from disparate remote servers, and then dissect/parse/report those logs into an Excel spreadsheet. (roll your own ...