If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function. In recent ...

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 ...

More of you are getting used to Windows PowerShell and realizing its advantages. With that in mind, this month's column is going to be a long one. This is a lightning overview of Windows PowerShell ...

Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you. So, ...

In the last lesson we started learning how to forge our own PowerShell tools. I started with a simple need, calculate the median and range for a set of numbers. Now that we know how to do it from the ...

Here's how to make the jump from simple lines of code to something that's a lot more useful. After reading countless blogs online, purging through hundreds of pages of books, you feel comfortable ...

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 ...

For this article, I thought it would be beneficial to go back to some basics of shell scripting and look at how functions work. Most script writers probably eschew using functions because it's a bit ...