CMD has been around for decades, but PowerShell has become a more efficient tool for managing Microsoft products. The PowerShell cmdlets in this ebook will enable you to knock out tasks you used to ...

Microsoft replaced the standard command prompt with Windows PowerShell — a much more powerful CLI-based tool that can be used for scripting and automating tasks. Along with automating complex or ...

If you work in IT, chances are PowerShell is already part of your daily routine. You might use it to check a service, pull system information, or automate a task that would otherwise take several ...

Sometimes the most difficult part of PowerShell is trying to figure out what to do with it. This is especially true for beginners where you are in a "chicken or egg" situation -- you don't know enough ...

You might use something like this with Read-Host. PS C:\> $c = Read-host "Enter the name of a wmiclass" Enter the name of a wmiclass: win32_service There's no ...

I'm new to PowerShell and trying to learn the recommended way to communicate with Office 365. I'm using a desktop with Windows 11 22H2 that has the latest Terminal changes (Windows Terminal which ...

In this article, we cover three of them – PowerShell, Command Prompt, and Windows Terminal — explaining how they differ from each other and when they should be used. The operating system of your ...

Windows PowerShell is powerful and can do almost everything that a person wants on his computer. However, it is a command-line tool and does not have a GUI. However, it can be helpful when the ...