Scripts are part of the foundation for efficient network administration. Network administrators are generally not programmers, but they need tools that will let them automate certain tasks and ...

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 ...

I've been working on a Windows Scripting Host/VBS script to grab some logfiles from disparate remote servers, and then dissect/parse/report those logs into an Excel spreadsheet. (roll your own ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

Active Directory (AD) is one of those products that seems ubiquitous. It's something that's taken for granted and is just assumed to be around. However, for those computers that are not part of AD ...