PowerShell has a feature called dynamic parameters that allows you to add parameters to a cmdlet based on the value of another parameter. This is useful when you have a parameter that can take ...

Describes the syntax diagrams that are used in PowerShell. The Get-Help and Get-Command cmdlets display syntax diagrams to help you construct commands correctly. This article explains how to interpret ...

Are you a Windows administrator? Did you make a new year’s resolution to learn PowerShell this year? If so, you have come to the right place. In this piece, I will get you started by orienting you to ...

If you are still clinging to the old DOS command prompt, you are not alone. There are still some things you can do quickly using the command prompt. In addition, you may already be familiar with the ...

We've been looking at some of the different syntax punctuation you are likely to run into in PowerShell. I'm trying to come up with analogies to help you understand, but sometimes, like any language, ...

Microsoft PowerShell is a powerful scripting language and administrative framework for Windows, and one of the key elements that makes it so powerful is the pipeline — the assembly line of data and ...

In the second part of this three-part series, the Prof. PowerShell breaks down how brackets should and shouldn't be used. In the last lesson I tried to demystify when to use parentheses in PowerShell.