Don Jones, TechMentor presenter and cochair, discusses some of his observations on how people are using PowerShell, and how they could do a better job. If you ever need to know more about PowerShell, ...

Here's how to make the jump from simple lines of code to something that's a lot more useful. After reading countless blogs online, purging through hundreds of pages of books, you feel comfortable ...

One of the best things about Windows PowerShell is the pipeline. The pipeline is beneficial in so many ways, and it is in part what makes PowerShell fun to code in. The capability of the pipeline to ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

A simple four-line script unexpectedly returned a host of errors for Brien. The issue turned out to be deceptively simple. While writing my previous column, I ran into a really odd problem: I suddenly ...

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 ...

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 ...

BurntToast is an open-source PowerShell module that generates standard toast notifications that appear in the bottom-right corner. The module supports Windows 10 and newer versions as well as Windows ...