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The PowerShell community is vibrant, with many of its developers contributing new cmdlets and scripts to the open source PowerShell Core and creating PowerShell modules that automate data center ...

The Windows Compatibility module gives you access to Windows PowerShell functionality that is not natively available in PowerShell Core. However, using this feature will require some attention to ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Learn how to transform everyday PowerShell one-liners and batch scripts into advanced functions with validation, pipeline support and help. Understand how to organize reusable code into modules with ...

In the first post, you learned some basics about the PowerShell language. I hope that it tickled your fancy enough to have opened the PowerShell console on your PC, or launch the recently released ...

Many information technology (IT) professionals use Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) to manage updates across all their Windows systems and other third-party software. When WSUS is paired with ...

For the longest time, the open source community had a ubiquitous concept called "public package repositories." Using utilities such as rpm, yum et al. is commonplace, but Microsoft never had the same ...

Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) is a safe way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. While PowerShell does not offer built-in support for SFTP, you can add this functionality using ...

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