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How to create and run a PowerShell script file on Windows 11 or 10

On Windows 11 (and Windows 10), PowerShell is a powerful command-line interface designed to run commands and scripts that automate tasks and manage system settings. While it serves a similar purpose ...
Redmond

How To Use .CSV Files with PowerShell, Part 1

Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...
techtarget

Using PowerShell to create XML documents

Traditionally, the exercise to create XML documents by hand has been a pain. The specific, required structure of an XML document means creating one manually can lead to errors. Mistype a character or ...
techtarget

How to upload and download files with PowerShell FTP script

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...
MCPmag

How To Manage Windows File Shares with PowerShell

One task that I hate doing is clicking through Windows just to create a file share. Creating file shares is a highly common activity that many IT pros go through and is one that is ripe for automation ...
The Windows Club

How to check if File and Folders exists using PowerShell

Managing files and folders is a crucial part of many automation tasks, and you can do it efficiently via PowerShell. PowerShell allows you to perform various tasks. One such thing is the ability to ...
XDA Developers

I automated file organization with one PowerShell script

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...
BizTech

How to Copy Files to a Microsoft Azure Storage Account Using PowerShell

Storage is a finite IT asset, and organizations can’t get enough of it. Businesses are consuming more storage every day, and it’s up to IT to keep up. Rather than consistently add expensive new ...
MCPmag

Creating a Balloon Tip Notification Using PowerShell

There are a few ways that PowerShell can provide some sort of notification method to alert you when something happens such as a script completing or an issue is detected during a query. The most ...
The Windows Club

How to Copy files from Windows to Linux using PowerShell

If you have two machines running Windows and Linux and want to copy files from one to another, this step-by-step guide will help you get the job done. You can use PowerShell Remoting Over SSH to copy ...
Redmond Magazine

How To Use .CSV Files with PowerShell, Part 2

In the second part of this series, Brien shows how to import a .CSV file into a PowerShell array, including two methods for zooming in on just the specific data you need and filtering out the rest. In ...