Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote the article and Brien Posey expanded it. The PowerShell parameter is a fundamental component of most PowerShell scripts. Parameters make it possible to ...

When you first start writing scripts, modularity, reusability, and best practices may not be top of mind. As your scripts become more complex, however, creating reusable elements becomes essential. By ...

Create PowerShell functions only for reusable code, not unnecessary script fragmentation. Avoid over-engineering small PowerShell scripts that become difficult to read and maintain. Keep PowerShell ...

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 ...

PowerShell is an object-oriented automation engine and scripting language with an interactive command-line shell that Microsoft developed to help IT professionals configure systems and automate ...

As a beginner to writing scripts with PowerShell, you won't learn the concept of a function until later. Newbies typically learn about PowerShell functions after they've learned what the pipeline is, ...

In the last lesson we started learning how to forge our own PowerShell tools. I started with a simple need, calculate the median and range for a set of numbers. Now that we know how to do it from the ...

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 ...