Most of the day-to-day operations of managing an Active Directory environment can be done from the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the commands available from a command prompt can be very powerful ...

Upon opening a Command Prompt, you will see a file path (e.g., "C:\Users\Chifundo"). This is called the prompt, and it shows what directory you're currently in. The blinking cursor at the end ...

If you don’t live on the command line, it can be easy to forget the exact syntax of commands. It often leaves you running to the “/?” or “–help” switches, or else a quick Google search to find the ...

If you are a system administrator, IT professional, or a power user it is common to find yourself using the command prompt to perform administrative tasks in Windows. Whether it be copying files, ...

On Windows 10, you can use the DISM command tool to repair the local image, which you can use with the System File Checker (SFC) to fix problems with the installation. In this guide, I'll show you how ...

Microsoft this week described some coming improvements to the Azure portal, which is a browser-accessible Web page used to carry out all sorts of management activities using Azure services. The ...

I am trying to decide which language to use to implement some open-source, cross-platform (Windows, OS X, Linux) command-line tools. My plan until recently was to use Python. Development in Python is ...

Google has announced the availability of a new tool called GoogleCL that will allow users to interact with the company's popular Web services directly from the command line. GoogleCL was developed in ...

Though most business users rarely use it, Microsoft Windows has a text-based Command Line interface in addition to the usual graphical user interface of buttons, windows and menus. Most often, ...

Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or a command line noob, there’s no way you remember every command, manual page, or tooltip. Lucky for you, we have some tools to make the command line less ...

Windows 10 has many command-line tools to help you manage networks, and in this guide, we'll show you how to use eight of them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For developers who love the CLI and those who don't, here are nine command-line tools that'll make your workdays easier and might even spark joy. Some developers use the command line because we have ...