On June 1, 2011, Cisco released the beta version of the Unified Computing System Manager PowerShell Toolkit with dozens of cmdlets to help automate management tasks on Cisco’s UCS bladeserver.

Microsoft released a "production preview" of its Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 solution yesterday. The Framework includes a bunch of software technologies that will add support for the latest ...

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PowerShell is a powerful and versatile tool for both Windows sysadmins and hackers, who use it to build malicious scripts that avoid detection. This advice will make it harder for them to do so.

Microsoft has released two PowerShell modules, Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretManagement and Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretStore, that make it easier to invoke scripted processes requiring passcodes (or ...

One of the most compelling reasons I find to use PowerShell is that I can get at all sorts of management information that used to require arcane or complicated VBScripts and command line tools. Now ...