Windows environment variables give system administrators access to a plethora of information about the Windows operating system. Separated into system and user-level scopes, default environment ...

Last year, I wrote a lesson on working with the ENV: PSDrive. I still encourage students to use $ENV:Computername to get the local computer name instead of using ...

PowerShell scripters have a few choices in the editor they can use to write code. Options range from the PowerShell Integrated Script Environment, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and more ...

In 2006, Windows Script Host (WSH) and the Command Prompt shell got a new sibling when Microsoft released a completely new environment called Windows PowerShell. PowerShell has some similarities to ...

PowerShell can be an information technology (IT) admin’s best friend if they know how to use it properly. Created by Microsoft over a decade ago, this object-oriented automation engine allows IT ...