Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

I'm making a script that will write a two-dimensional array to an Excel spreadsheet. The script is meant to be called from within other scripts. An outer loop runs once for every row in the array. An ...

What you get is a graphical display of the default view (see Fig. 1). Figure 1. Default grid view; in PowerShell 2, it's all you get. (Click image to view larger version.) You can sort on column ...

• PowerShell allows the creation and manipulation of arrays, which store multiple values in a single variable. Each item in the array can be accessed individually using its position number. • Arrays ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

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 ...