Sometimes you need to scan some files for a piece of data like a string, phrase or some number, and one of those files just happens to be an Excel spreadsheet. You could open up the file, launch the ...

There's nothing wrong with this technique in PowerShell. I've yet to find a situation in which it doesn't work. But PowerShell has a cmdlet called Out-File, which offers a bit more flexibility. This ...

Windows PowerShell is probably best-known for its ability to allow Windows admins to operate at scale. For instance, it would take forever to create a thousand user accounts through the GUI, but ...