Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article, and Reda Chouffani has expanded it. Even though administrators can accomplish many tasks with ad hoc PowerShell commands, learning how to ...

Do note that you have to launch Windows PowerShell as an administrator, otherwise, the commands will not execute and you will receive an error in PowerShell. If you ...

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 ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Have you ever noticed that if you include a variable within a PowerShell Write-Host statement, that variable is evaluated, even if you include the reference to the variable within the quotation marks?

A simple PowerShell script can inventory installed applications and help determine what stays and what goes during a PC refresh.