PowerShell 3.0 has given us a much needed update to Get-ChildItem. All your version 2 scripts should continue to work, but I expect you’ll find these new features will make new scripting projects even ...

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 ...

Most IT admins use PowerShell for scripting and automation, but it's not just for IT specialists—anyone dealing with messy folders needs these commands. I use them to track down old code, organize ...

Get-ChildItem : The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters. I still ...

How to use PowerShell objects, how to tease more info and functionality out of them and how objects can be useful in scripting scenarios. One of the things most people do not realize about PowerShell, ...

One of the big advantages of using PowerShell as a scripting language is its use of objects. Since everything is an object in PowerShell, we can take advantage of structured data by calling properties ...

I wrote a script to purge files from a memory card to a location on my network. However I had no idea they were doing video too. Is there a way to use -Include with multiple file types?

Microsoft PowerShell is a trusted tool for many information technology (IT) professionals managing Internet Information Services (IIS) web server farms with dozens or even hundreds of app pools. With ...