Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you started. Illustration: Lisa Hornung Microsoft PowerShell, generally referred to as Windows PowerShell, offers a handy way to ...

Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you.

With that in mind, this month's column is going to be a long one. This is a lightning overview of Windows PowerShell scripting, including how to build parameterized scripts. Over the next few ...

PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language built into Windows that can help you automate administrative and repetitive tasks. If you've used it before, it might already feel familiar.

In previous versions of the Windows operating system, Windows Script Host (WSH) has been the standard scripting language to execute such tasks. But with the introduction of Windows Vista, Microsoft ...

SEE: Top 5 programming languages for security admins to learn (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Released as PowerShell 1.0 on Nov. 14, 2006, Microsoft developed PowerShell to address the shortcomings of ...

PowerShell is an open-source scripting language that’s used to design efficient scripts and tools to assist people in their daily computer tasks. “PowerShell is like a special notebook where you can ...

If you're using the PowerShell Interactive Scripting Environment, a Microsoft tool to develop PowerShell code, you can use this environment to run your PowerShell scripts. To launch the ISE ...

Linux usage of PowerShell is the key reason Microsoft's programming language for the first time this March reached 45 in Tiobe's programming-language popularity index. However, Windows usage ...

The open-source push appears to be helping PowerShell become more popular among developers, showing up for the first time in 45th place in Tiobe's most popular programming languages. PowerShell ...