If you frequently work with the Command Prompt or PowerShell, you may need to copy files from or to an external drive, and many other times, you may need to display the drives within the console ...

You can use the GetBIOS PowerShell module to retrieve settings from various BIOS manufacturers on either a local or remote computer. This post will show you how to access computer BIOS settings using ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

Command Prompt (CMD) has been around since Windows NT, and almost everyone who uses Windows is familiar with it. It is a ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...