When PowerShell made its public debut in November 2006, and became available for all modern Windows versions early in 2007, it had already been knocking around in experimental and beta form for more ...

Some IT professionals who use PowerShell regularly might think they know everything about the scripting language, but they'd be wrong. PowerShell has many undocumented or lesser-known features. You ...

Learn how to design and build your own interactive menus inside your PowerShell scripts. This will help non-PowerShell users easily navigate and use them.

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

A PowerShell “for” loop is a core scripting tool that lets you execute a block of code multiple times. Whether you’re automating system tasks or processing data, understanding how to write a “for” ...

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.

Over the last seven months, I have been hard at work building a line of business application that is designed to manage all of my writing, speaking and other projects. As crazy as it may sound, I ...

Learn how to use Microsoft’s programmers’ editor, Visual Studio Code, to get the most from the latest PowerShell releases. PowerShell is now a lot more than a system management tool for Windows. The ...