Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from command line automation, too. Here are 10 PowerShell commands you can use to ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Variables are just about the most ubiquitous element inside any PowerShell script. Variables can easily be created and referenced inside your script. But sometimes you just need to test to see if they ...

Most of the PowerShell scripts that I have seen over the years are relatively straightforward. They tend to use a sequence of cmdlets and various operators and parameters. However, a script consisting ...

Previously, WSUS included an option to import updates from the Microsoft Update Catalog site. Users had to use the WSUS admin user interface to import updates. Microsoft has replaced this method with ...

Even though it has somewhat of a checkered reputation, being able to wield it will save you a ton of time. There's a saying that I've heard numerous times about regular expressions (regex). It goes ...

The Vice Society ransomware gang is deploying a new, rather sophisticated PowerShell script to automate data theft from compromised networks. Stealing corporate and customer data is a standard tactic ...