I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...

Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Native support for Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) isn't in PowerShell, but that doesn't mean it's not capable. By using a free community module called Posh-SSH, we can transfer files via SCP just as ...

Storage is a finite IT asset, and organizations can’t get enough of it. Businesses are consuming more storage every day, and it’s up to IT to keep up. Rather than consistently add expensive new ...

Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) is a safe way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. While PowerShell does not offer built-in support for SFTP, you can add this functionality using ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

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 ...

Since 2006, Microsoft has been bundling the PowerShell command-line shell that administrators can use to manage their computers and other computers on a network. "Windows PowerShell is a Windows ...