Adam Bertram
Adam Bertram is a 25+ year IT veteran and an experienced online business professional. He’s a successful blogger, consultant, 6x Microsoft MVP, trainer, published author and freelance writer for dozens of publications. For how-to tech tutorials, catch up with Adam at adamtheautomator.com, connect on LinkedIn or follow him on X at @adbertram.
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Leveraging PowerShell Automation in the Cloud
As part of this cloud transition, it's important to realize that even though you can't see a system it still needs to be managed. Let's talk about PowerShell automation.
PowerShell Scripting and Open Management Infrastructure (OMI)
As an IT professional or manager, when you think of the word "script," what comes to mind? Are images of VBScript and batch files still haunting you to this day? Are you just thinking about a nice, little piece of code that automates some mundane task? If so, let's get...
PowerShell on Linux: Not Just Windows Anymore
On Aug. 18, Jeffrey Snover finally got his wish. It was a wish that we in the PowerShell community knew was eventually coming judging from his tongue-in-cheek responses when asked about it for many months. Windows PowerShell was renamed simply to PowerShell because...
Understanding PowerShell Toolmaking
As we use PowerShell Toolmaking to automate more tasks, most of us eventually find ourselves reinventing the wheel. We write a script to do task X, another to do task Y, then task Z comes around. A few weeks go by and we begrudgingly write another script to do task X...
Using the PowerShell Test-NetConnection Cmdlet on Windows
Before the days of PowerShell Test-NetConnection, we had many different command-line tools we could choose from to troubleshoot various network connectivity issues. We had ping for testing ICMP echoes and replies; tracert to see where our packets might be getting...
How to Use Scheduled Tasks to Copy or Transfer Files
You shouldn't have to babysit all of the file copies; scheduled tasks is perfect for automating this job.
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