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The Windows Task Scheduler is a boon for a group of users who like to schedule different tasks and automate them. I use it all the time to schedule periodic execution of scripts and some programs to ...

The scriptblock is a unique type of construct in PowerShell that allows developers to "compartmentalize" executable code and use it in various places. Lots of programming languages have a concept of ...

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 ...

In PowerShell, an alias is a handy shortcut or command alternative. For example, instead of typing Get-ChildItem, you can type ls or dir. Aliases can act as a transition from other shells to ...

Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

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 ...