What if your PC could take care of boring tasks for you? With Windows PowerShell, it can. Here's how I use PowerShell to automate everyday repetitive tasks that I would be less keen to do otherwise.

As businesses increasingly rely on automated solutions to streamline operations and reduce manual workloads, mastering automation tools is more important for aspiring tech professionals. If you want ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

Have you ever needed to schedule a PowerShell script? While you may not need to execute the script right away, you may have a process that must be done daily, monthly or somewhere in between. Common ...

Let’s face it: working on the administrative side of IT can involve a lot of tedious, repetitive tasks. Manually configuring user accounts, troubleshooting the same issues over and over, generating ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

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.

You've automated the SQL database backup process; now, let's restore in auto mode. Here's how to do it with PowerShell. In my last post, I demonstrated a script that can execute backups for a server.