Users and organizations relying on PowerShell 2.0 are urged to transition to PowerShell 5.0 or newer versions:Windows ...

Microsoft has confirmed PowerShell 2.0 is officially being removed from Windows, starting with the latest Windows 11 Insider ...

A cybersecurity researcher has developed FileFix, a variant of the ClickFix social engineering attack that tricks users into ...

A PowerShell script using WBAdmin can create full system backups of Windows 11, offering a simple, scriptable alternative for ...

PowerShell 2.0 is already a few years old. Microsoft is therefore throwing it out of Windows and advises migration.

The PowerShell script was used to disable Windows Defender's antivirus prevention capabilities like real-time detection, script and file scanning and a host-based intrusion prevention system.

PowerShell was developed more than 10 years ago by Microsoft to expand the power of its command line interface by coupling it with a management framework used to manage local and remote Windows ...

Figure 5: PowerShell can display role and feature information from an offline VM. About the Author. Brien Posey is a 22-time Microsoft MVP with decades of IT experience.

PowerShell Universal comes with a number of available templates to help you get started with various tasks, including administering Active Directory users and groups, building terminal-based user ...

PowerShell's extensibility, and the fact that it ships with Windows 10 and 11, gives attackers a means to abuse the tool. This typically happens after an attacker has gained access to a victim's ...

A use-case where you may want to use PowerShell instead of the conventional way to get a folder would be if the size of the item or folder is significantly larger — for example, greater than 100 GB.

Search for PowerShell, right-click the top result, and select the Run as administrator option. Type the following command to temporarily disable Microsoft Defender Antivirus and press Enter : Set ...