Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

If you want to delete or create a scheduled task on Windows 11/10 using Windows PowerShell, this tutorial will help you do that. You do not have to open Task Scheduler to create the scheduled task.

Tom Fenton details step-by-step directions to configure Windows 10 to allow running Task Scheduler and how to set up an automated task to run a PowerShell script every four hours. Recently I had a ...

To change the execution policy to run PowerShell scripts on Windows 11 (or 10), use these steps: Open Start. Search for PowerShell, right-click the top result, and select the Run as administrator ...

Most of the time when writing ad-hoc PowerShell scripts, you'll most likely be writing synchronous tasks. These are tasks that run in serial which inherently wait for the previous task to complete ...

This is a simple question that will probably be easy for you to answer. I know I could Google a code snippet to do what I need to do. I hope that, more than giving me the right code, you can explain ...

I've come to a point where the script does what is needed, grabs data, generates html, fires off email etc properly, and I tried scheduling it under a service account. I've made a batch file that ...

We're big proponents of "work smarter, not harder" here at XDA, and that means figuring out how to automate as much of our ...