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.

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 ...

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 ...

On June 1, 2011, Cisco released the beta version of the Unified Computing System Manager PowerShell Toolkit with dozens of cmdlets to help automate management tasks on Cisco’s UCS bladeserver.

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 ...

Have older Windows systems on your network? You can give them PowerShell 5's event logging capabilities even if they run Windows 7. You might think that something as basic as PowerShell, Microsoft’s a ...

Your source for the news, opinions, and reader reaction on the industry’s hottest controversy. This chapter brings you up to speed on the technical basics of PowerShell and how to use it, with a focus ...