As a Windows system administrator, you constantly perform many routine tasks in an effort to manage, maintain, and support your Windows environment. Occasionally the need will arise to create a script ...

Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you. So, ...

Are you one of those efficient administrators who insists on automating as many tasks as possible in your environment? Yeah, okay, me too. Maybe “lazy” is a better word than “efficient,” but it’s all ...

Windows 11 feeling bloated? Sophia Script lets you reshape the OS from the inside out. Here's how it works.

Microsoft recently unveiled a new Web portal that provides free scripts for IT professionals using Microsoft server products. The all-in-one script framework for IT pros site is an ongoing effort in ...

Scripting in Windows has taken different shapes over the years. Many administrators started by creating DOS batch files to help perform simple tasks repetitively and without errors. Today, ...

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is an enterprise level application designed by Microsoft to support the simultaneous running of multiple virtual machines on a high performance, scalable, secure and reliable ...

In my last post, I demonstrated how to write an AppleScript that verbally announces when new emails arrive in Mail. Some readers asked whether the same thing could be accomplished with Microsoft ...

An Ars forum member by the name of adminfoo recently installed Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) to see what all the fuss was about. To his surprise, the security solution quickly labeled him as a ...

Developers must be masochists. How else to explain all the negative reactions to Microsoft’s newfound enthusiasm for HTML5 and JavaScript? First Microsoft said it would integrate the Web standards ...