Although native support for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is not in PowerShell, by using a free module, you can retrieve, delete and add new files.

Using PowerShell to zip or unzip files requires some technical knowledge, but it doesn’t necessarily require advanced knowledge. PowerShell commands are quite straightforward, particularly for ...

We've all been there: We start to work on a file that we think is available, only to find out that it's already opened and in use, meaning we have to wait until whatever process currently using the ...

When it comes to bulk administration, few things are handier than .CSV files. In this two-part series, Brien demos his top techniques for working with .CSV files in PowerShell. First up: How to ...

Managing permissions on files and folders can be an enormous time drain for IT professionals. Users have home folders, departments have proprietary folders, projects have unique folders — the list ...

Looking at the signature of a file quickly lets you know whether that file is really what it claims to be. Here's how to tap PowerShell to figure out the file signature.

Because PowerShell was initially released on GitHub, I'll first walk through how I installed it using the PowerShell GitHub repository. I used Lynx to find and download the package to install ...

If you want to export a command output to a file, in this guide, we'll show you how on PowerShell and Command Prompt.

Posey's Tips & Tricks How To Use .CSV Files with PowerShell, Part 2 In the second part of this series, Brien shows how to import a .CSV file into a PowerShell array, including two methods for ...