Automation/Scripting


'Just Enough Administration' PowerShell Security Controls Previewed at TechEd

This week at Microsoft's TechEd conference, the company showed off the new PowerShell-based server protection scheme for IT pros called "Just Enough Administration" (JEA).

Perfect PowerShell Properties Part 3: Custom Formatting

Here's how to jump through the complicated hoops to update format data in PowerShell.

Perfect PowerShell Properties Part 2: History

Here's how to check to see how long it's been since a custom property has been modified.

Perfect PowerShell Properties Part 1: Management Info

Here's how to pull up PowerShell reports for your own use and for others.

PowerShell Help Line

Prof. Powershell demonstrates how to easily pull up the most-recent cmdlet help online in a PowerShell window.

PowerShell Script Browser 1.0 Released

Microsoft's Script Browser 1.0, an add-in search tool that works with PowerShell's integrated scripting environment, was released by Microsoft last week.

PowerShell Command History Lesson Part 3: Group Policies

Here's how to use a Group Policy setting to automate logging for commands in PowerShell 3.

Command History Lesson Part 2: PowerShell 3.

Here's how to capture PowerShell commands and history in PowerShell 3.

Breaking Down PowerShell's Scope

The Prof. PowerShell visits a beginner topic that many could use a brush-up on.

PowerShell Command History Lesson Part 1

While you can't easily retrieve another user's command history, here's an alternative to getting the info you need.

Required Scripting Parameters in PowerShell

Make sure the a unsupported script stops at the beginning instead of failing at a later point in time.

PowerShell Objects in a Pipeline

Prof. Powershell demonstrates how to expand in PowerShell to locate objects.

Tip of the ISE-berg

Here's some of Prof. PowerShell's top Integrated Script Editor tricks.

I'm Into That: Automation Tasks in PowerShell

It's easy to get confused when testing whether something is "in" something else or "contains" something else. Prof. PowerShell is here to clear some of the confusion.

Add a Progress Bar to a Graphical Status Box in PowerShell

Jeffrey Hicks shows you how to build on the code from a previous lesson to add a progress bar to your status box.

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