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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 ...

Let's pick up where we left off using the compression classes from the .NET Framework. If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a few minutes to read the previous article. Let's start our ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...