I can already hear the groans. But yes, I use AI and I use AI to help me try and learn about things I don't know about. This harks back to the early days of Copilot, the artist formerly known as Bing ...

Running through your daily workflow one task at a time may be manageable now. However, if you need to complete repetitive tasks dozens or even hundreds of times, automating them could relieve time to ...

Let’s face it: working on the administrative side of IT can involve a lot of tedious, repetitive tasks. Manually configuring user accounts, troubleshooting the same issues over and over, generating ...

If you're a PowerShell user and a fan of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), you now have the option to flick on ISE mode in Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) cross-platform ...

PowerShell has long been a cornerstone of IT automation, but for many professionals -- especially those just starting out -- it can seem intimidating. At this year's TechMentor conference (taking ...

Adam is the author of the AdamtheAutomator.com blog, and works as a Microsoft systems administrator specializing in the Microsoft System Center suite and PowerShell automation. The ability to automate ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...

Adam Bertram is a 20-year IT veteran, blogger and freelance writer. Follow him on the social platform X @adbertram. Everyone learns PowerShell differently, but I recommend a ­three-step approach to ...

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that PowerShell 7 has reached "general availability" (GA) commercial release. Previously, when the scripting language was at the "release candidate" stage back in ...

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 ...