PowerShell

In this article, I will look at both Microsoft’s Windows Update provider for PowerShell in Windows Server 2019. And I’ll show you how to use the third-party PSWindowsUpdate PowerShell module that most system administrators still prefer to use. Microsoft’s Windows Update PowerShell provider Microsoft’s Windows Update PowerShell provider (WindowsUpdateProvider) comes preinstalled in Windows Server 2019…

In this quick Ask an Admin, learn to use PowerShell to join one or more computers to an Active Directory domain.

Discover how to use PowerShell to delete files and folders in this Ask an Admin. Find out how to remove all MP3 files, filter, take out .txt files and more.

In this PowerShell Problem Solver, Jeff Hicks shows us how to leverage PowerShell to identify, enable, and reset folders with blocked inheritance.

File Servers – We all have them in one form or another. These servers tend to grow exponentially more critical than what we imagined when deploying them. They were also quite cumbersome to migrate until Microsoft released its Storage Migration Service. But there is one important scenario that it does not cover – consolidating multiple…

Learn how to test URIs and URLs with PowerShell in this how-to article by Windows PowerShell Microsoft MVP Jeff Hicks.

With the advent of cloud services, PowerShell is more important than ever. The Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest functions of PowerShell allow easy interactions with an API and aid in creating complex workflows.

Jeff Hicks shares tips for copying files between computers with PowerShell remoting, as an alternative to the common system administrator task.

Use a .NET API to check if the user running your script is a local administrator.

Want to browse the TechNet script gallery inside the PowerShell ISE? Discover the new plugin for PowerShell ISE that adds a script browser and analyzer.