PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line.

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions.

Obviously, PowerShell can't just magically write a script for you. If it could, that would definitely be a cool capability, but it would also probably mean that I would be out of a job.

Shell ISE provides a user-friendly environment for writing and running PowerShell scripts. Let's first examine how to access it on Windows computers and familiarize ourselves with its interface: 1.

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...