In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

A simple four-line script unexpectedly returned a host of errors for Brien. The issue turned out to be deceptively simple. While writing my previous column, I ran into a really odd problem: I suddenly ...

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Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that helps Windows 10 users securely contribute their computer's unused processing power to Folding@home. Distributed-computing disease research project ...

In one of our earlier post, we talked about removing Security Questions from Windows. This post offers an alternative way of disabling the same via a PowerShell script. Update-AllUsersQA is a ...

I want to programmatically join a newly deployed Windows VM (VMware) to a domain. I have a simple PowerShell script that will do this, but there's a problem: I need the script to run the second time ...