To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...

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.

Have you ever needed to schedule a PowerShell script? While you may not need to execute the script right away, you may have a process that must be done daily, monthly or somewhere in between. Common ...

What is PowerShell? Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful administrative tool that can help you automate tasks for your computer ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

Not all applications are created with remote execution in mind. PowerShell provides several ways to invoke applications on ...

There are a few ways that PowerShell can provide some sort of notification method to alert you when something happens such as a script completing or an issue is detected during a query. The most ...