Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

For example, in figure 4, I am setting the execution policy to unrestricted and then running my script. [Click on image for larger view.] Figure 4. The execution policy must allow scripts to be run.

Obviously, PowerShell can't just magically write a script for you. If it could, that would definitely be a cool capability, but it would also probably mean that I would be out of a job.

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...

As you get more experienced writing PowerShell script there comes a time when you're not only concerned about functionality but best practices and performance as well. Since PowerShell is so flexible, ...

The “ Simple HTTP api for executing PowerShell scripts ” is itself just a PowerShell script. So changing functionality just requires modifying a single file, no compilation needed.