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, ...

Strings are a very common thing to see and use in PowerShell. Parameters may take strings and a lot of times the objects that are outputted by various commands have strings as their properties. In ...

By defining Microsoft PowerShell functions within PowerShell modules, you can organize your scripts, avoid duplicating code, ...

Using built-in cmdlets that come with PowerShell, we can easily read and replace any kind of content inside of a text file. Whether the string to find inside of the text file is just a single word or ...

Have you ever noticed that if you include a variable within a PowerShell Write-Host statement, that variable is evaluated, even if you include the reference to the variable within the quotation marks?

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 ...

Anyone who's used Windows in recent years has likely heard of Windows PowerShell at some point. This CLI-based scripting tool ...