Windows environment variables give system administrators access to a plethora of information about the Windows operating system. Separated into system and user-level scopes, default environment ...

Last year, I wrote a lesson on working with the ENV: PSDrive. I still encourage students to use $ENV:Computername to get the local computer name instead of using ...

PowerShell scripters have a few choices in the editor they can use to write code. Options range from the PowerShell Integrated Script Environment, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and more ...

If you need to create and configure VMs on a regular basis, using Windows PowerShell to do so can speed up the process. Whether you need to test new or standardized server setups, Hyper-V gives you an ...

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 ...

Environment variables are name-value pairs for various programs or processes on an operating system. On Windows, the environment variables store all sorts of information about the operating system ...

Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.