IT professionals wear many hats. Whether they are addressing a helpdesk ticket to reset a user's password, installing patches on servers or deploying software to their customers, they are responsible ...

PowerShell 7.1, touted by Microsoft as a "major update" to the scripting language, reached general availability this week. PowerShell 7.1 is based on .NET 5, which also was released this week. In ...

Microsoft's latest major update to is PowerShell automation tool and scripting language, is generally available as of today, March 4. PowerShell 7, the successor to PowerShell Core 6.X, is available ...

In PowerShell, an alias is a handy shortcut or command alternative. For example, instead of typing Get-ChildItem, you can type ls or dir. Aliases can act as a transition from other shells to ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced the "general availability" commercial release of PowerShell Crescendo. PowerShell Crescendo is a new installable module that's used to wrap various "native" utility ...

Microsoft is polishing up a new PowerToys utility to improve the user experience on PowerShell in Windows 10 and 11 by suggesting installations of missing components through WinGet packages. Teased ...