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 ...
If you have been using PowerShell for a while, or even just picked it up yesterday, you have no doubt used Where-Object and ForEach-Object at some point in your scripting experience. The beauty of ...
Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...
Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful scripting language and administrative framework for Windows, and one of the key elements that makes it so powerful is the pipeline — the assembly line of data and ...
There are two purpose-built options to manage a Windows client and server OS from the command line. The most common and universally recognized is the command prompt. Cmd.exe has been an aspect of ...
As enterprises use more cloud services and Linux severs, a standard management tool for Windows has evolved to expand its capabilities to manage those workloads. Windows Server and its desktop ...
One of the hazards that Microsoft groups face when they launch their products is competition for attention from other Microsoft groups with bigger marketing budgets. Think about the poor Windows ...