This PowerShell tutorial opens with an introduction to PowerShell scripting basics. It guides you through various topics, starting with launching PowerShell and preparing to run PowerShell scripts.

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This section provides a tutorial for creating the Select-Str cmdlet, which is very similar to the Select-Stringcmdlet provided by Windows PowerShell. This tutorial provides fragments of code that ...

Microsoft has greatly expanded the role of PowerShell in Windows server 2012. Although PowerShell has always offered at least some storage management capabilities, they have been greatly enhanced in ...

In this tutorial, you use PowerShell to submit a single Execute DAX Queries REST API request that contains multiple EVALUATE statements, then parse the multi-result-set Apache Arrow response. This ...

Each section is independent—use only what you need.

PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and scripting tool used across IT, cloud, development and security. In 2026, PowerShell 7.6 LTS offers a current .NET 10-based release with long-term support.