This PowerShell tutorial opens with an introduction to PowerShell scripting basics. It guides you through various topics, starting with launching PowerShell and preparing to run PowerShell scripts.

Editor's note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article, and Reda Chouffani has expanded it. Even though administrators can accomplish many tasks with ad hoc PowerShell commands, learning how to ...

This section provides a tutorial for creating the Select-Str cmdlet, which is very similar to the Select-Stringcmdlet provided by Windows PowerShell. This tutorial provides fragments of code that ...

Microsoft has greatly expanded the role of PowerShell in Windows server 2012. Although PowerShell has always offered at least some storage management capabilities, they have been greatly enhanced in ...

Azure Artifacts provides an easy way to share your PowerShell scripts and books across your entire team or company. By storing your PowerShell scripts in a private NuGet repository within Azure ...

In this tutorial, you use PowerShell to submit a single Execute DAX Queries REST API request that contains multiple EVALUATE statements, then parse the multi-result-set Apache Arrow response. This ...

This is an archived blog. The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might ...

psmux is a tmux compatible terminal multiplexer for Windows, and it ships a tmux.exe alias. That means automation written against tmux, whether a session bootstrap script, a project sessionizer, a CI ...

PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and scripting tool used across IT, cloud, development and security. In 2026, PowerShell 7.6 LTS offers a current .NET 10-based release with long-term support.