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.

Contractors, consultants, temporary staff, and other contingent workers have become an essential part of the modern workforce. But at many organizations, these non-employees exist outside traditional ...

What was once an afterthought for thinly spread IT teams has become one of the most popular exposure vectors among attackers today. Third-party application vulnerabilities are involved in an enormous ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each of these CSV files has four columns: FirstName,LastName,Title,HireDate. At the end of each month, management wants a report of who was hired that month. To find this information, you must read ...

Jeffrey Hicks shows you how to build on the code from a previous lesson to add a progress bar to your status box. Over the last several lessons we've been exploring different techniques for display ...