In the second part of this three-part series, the Prof. PowerShell breaks down how brackets should and shouldn't be used. In the last lesson I tried to demystify when to use parentheses in PowerShell.

We get it. From the outside, PowerShell can appear to be an incredibly powerful tool that only the most hardened IT pros can wield. But that just is not the case. Petri Paavola and his 20-plus years ...

I'd love to tell you that PowerShell is the easiest thing in the world to learn -- and that's just what many have been saying. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's not exactly true. Are ...

DISM is the Swiss Army Knife of Windows 10 maintenance and with the Windows 10 Creators Update it gained a helpful collection of PowerShell scripts. Here's how to put them to use. With the release of ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...