When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed you an example of PowerShell's native validation capabilities. In that installment, I wrote a function that accepted a text string as input. The function then used ...

PowerShell is a handy tool for troubleshooting network issues, automating tasks, managing configurations, or building ...

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 ...

Last month, I explored exit codes and how decent error correction in your shell scripts always should include testing the value of $? after each meaningful command ...

Learn how to use loops and dynamic object naming in PowerShell to build GUI settings interfaces that can adapt as new parameters are added.

Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

When working with Active Directory groups, a common requirement is to enumerate all members of several different groups. This is done to typically figure out what kind of permissions each user in that ...