One of the best new features in PowerShell 7 is the ability to perform parallel execution of script blocks, which can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to process ForEach-Object loops.

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line.

For example, if I wanted to compare two numbers — let’s say 5 and 10 — and have PowerShell display whether 10 was greater than 5, then we could write the following if/then construct: ...

M icrosoft replaced the standard command prompt with Windows PowerShell — a much more powerful CLI-based tool that can be used for scripting and automating tasks. Along with aut ...

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...

This is why a handy PowerShell module called PSScriptAnalyzer was introduced by Microsoft. PSScriptAnalyzer is a free module that allows you to scan your scripts or modules for coding best practices.

Lets say I'm going to have 50 various PowerShell scripts to do "stuff".<BR><BR>All of this work is being done for a single application and that application uses 3 different SQL Server 05 (soon to ...