By manipulating strings in this way, I am able to pass the variable's contents to PowerShell as a script parameter. You can see the full script in Figure 5 and the output in Figure 6.

Adding the CmdletBinding [] keyword to both PowerShell scripts and functions gives the script writer the ability to use advanced parameter validation (among many other things). Using parameter ...

Instead, use parameters. If you must use interactive prompts, try to separate them as much as possible from your "working" code. Perhaps you can include your prompts in a function you can easily swap ...

Most IT admins use PowerShell for scripting and automation, but it's not just for IT specialists—anyone dealing with messy ...

Clicking the button passes the number 3 to a PowerShell script. Now obviously there are much easier ways to add two to a number using nothing but Excel (no PowerShell). But that isn't the point.

DISM is the Swiss Army Knife of Windows 10 maintenance and with the Windows 10 Creators Update it gained a helpful collection of PowerShell scripts. Here's how to put them to use.

In Add arguments, -File parameter is the default one so simply specify the script path. Assume you have created a PowerShell script and saved it to your desktop. C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\TWC ...

If you are signed into a WSUS server that uses a default port and you want to import a single update, the script will look like this: .\ImportUpdateToWSUS.ps1 -UpdateId 12345678-90ab-cdef-1234 ...

3. Run Powershell Invoke-Command Once the script is on the local computer, specify the computers it should run on and the path where it’s stored. To do this, run Invoke-Command, providing computer ...