If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...

GUI-based administration might linger for a while, but working from the console prompt is the wave of the future. And that means scripting. The days of GUI-based Windows administration are numbered.

More of you are getting used to Windows PowerShell and realizing its advantages. With that in mind, this month's column is going to be a long one. This is a lightning overview of Windows PowerShell ...