Your source for the news, opinions, and reader reaction on the industry’s hottest controversy. This chapter brings you up to speed on the technical basics of PowerShell and how to use it, with a focus ...

Here is an example of a PowerShell script that will copy all files, folders, and settings of the user "malopez" profile from a PC named "malopez-01" on a domain to a new PC named "malopez-02" on the ...

Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

This script combines the basic and advanced techniques and randomly selects which set of tactics to use, then pauses for a random amount of time between 1 and 10 minutes before starting again. Always ...

Hamid is a certified Google IT Support Professional. Key Takeaways Adjust the Execution Policy to allow script execution by using the "Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned" command which balances security ...

Last night I was playing around with some of the Sysinternals tools and rediscovered a tool called Bginfo. For those who might not be familiar with Sysinternals, it is a collection of free tools ...

PowerShell scripts are great because they can be used to do almost anything. One of the limitations to PowerShell scripts, however, is that it isn't always practical to give a script to someone who ...

The Windows Task Scheduler is a boon for a group of users who like to schedule different tasks and automate them. I use it all the time to schedule periodic execution of scripts and some programs to ...