MySQL is a common database amongst many organizations. As such, when building an automation script that needs to query data from somewhere, you might run into the need to query a MySQL database. By ...

In this session, you’ll learn ways to create a clearer operating model, improve visibility across users and devices, standardize everyday operations and reduce manual work across IT service delivery.

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Unfortunately, IT professionals have to deal with sensitive information all the time. That information could be in the form of passwords, proprietary company information or anything that you'd rather ...

One of the big advantages of using PowerShell as a scripting language is its use of objects. Since everything is an object in PowerShell, we can take advantage of structured data by calling properties ...

Here's how to make your data more useful -- or even just more presentable -- using the Join and Split operators and the Split method. With PowerShell, there are many ways to work with data. In this ...

There are a few ways that PowerShell can provide some sort of notification method to alert you when something happens such as a script completing or an issue is detected during a query. The most ...

In what might seem to be a shocking business move, Jas Dillon, former head of business development and M&A at Microsoft, has been named chief strategy officer and general manager of the new TASER ...

Using Windows Management Instrumentation makes it easy to pull information about the drives on your system or remote systems. Here's how. Managing drives is a very common thing that a system ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, there always seems to come a time when a single script just isn't enough. Although it's important to keep your scripts as simple as possible, it's also important to ...

Native support for Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) isn't in PowerShell, but that doesn't mean it's not capable. By using a free community module called Posh-SSH, we can transfer files via SCP just as ...

Using built-in cmdlets that come with PowerShell, we can easily read and replace any kind of content inside of a text file. Whether the string to find inside of the text file is just a single word or ...