Here's how to use PowerShell to manage Hyper-V virtual machines without having to jump through the usual hoops. Microsoft has long given administrators the ability to use PowerShell to manage remote ...

The fourth part of the CIM cmdlets blog series focuses on creating a duplicate CIM session on a different PowerShell unit. The new CIM cmdlets in PowerShell 3.0 rely on a remoting feature called a CIM ...

IT professionals likely met the October arrival of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with both joy and a heavy sigh. On one hand, I believe many organizations have been waiting for Windows 7 so ...

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I have a need to establish a remote powershell (v2) quickly to allow a .NET app on one server to send commands to an exchange server for account creations and modifications. Unfortunately, this ...

If you have two machines running Windows and Linux and want to copy files from one to another, this step-by-step guide will help you get the job done. You can use PowerShell Remoting Over SSH to copy ...

It happens. Thankfully, with the use of Windows PowerShell for AWS, it's easy to get back into your instance. Last week, I was working on a project that required me to set up several Windows-based EC2 ...

My Windows experience is nearly nil, so this may be a fairly stupid question. I have a new Windows 8 Pro machine at home. It has to stay running Windows because I have a fantasy that I will someday ...

The InfoQ trends reports provide a snapshot of emerging software technology and ideas. We create the reports and accompanying graphs to aid software engineers and architects in evaluating what trends ...