Windows PowerShell scripting can save you tons of time. PowerShell can automate or manage just about everything within the Microsoft infrastructure from the command line. PowerShell scripts can be ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

Learn how to transform everyday PowerShell one-liners and batch scripts into advanced functions with validation, pipeline support and help. Understand how to organize reusable code into modules with ...

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 ...

I'm writing a script to that will invoke the GIMP batch processor. I've written the GIMP Script-Fu scripts. I've written the PowerShell wrapper. However, I can't get PowerShell to properly pass the ...

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PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and scripting tool used across IT, cloud, development and security. In 2026, PowerShell 7.6 LTS offers a current .NET 10-based release with long-term support.

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.

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 ...