In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Clue in users and gain insight into the status of executed cmdlets and functions by adding progress bars to your PowerShell (PS) scripts. Gartner releases 4 trends that will impact cloud, data centers ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

In the quest for writing better code in PowerShell, we have a great tool that can help you to write better code by pointing out areas that can be improved to better match a 'best practices' approach.

Stop doing manually what your PC has been able to automate since forever.

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 ...

Have older Windows systems on your network? You can give them PowerShell 5's event logging capabilities even if they run Windows 7. You might think that something as basic as PowerShell, Microsoft’s a ...

In a nutshell: Microsoft continues to impose strict and, to many, unfair requirements for Windows installation, prompting users to push back by finding creative ways ...