In the first of a new column featuring in-depth advice on Windows Servers, Brien Posey breaks down how you can create custom information dumps in PowerShell.

We show you how to create and run PowerShell script file in Windows. You can create it using virtually any text editor or the ISE console.

Here's how you'd save a PSCredential object to a file: Get-Credential | Export-CliXml -Path MyCredential.xml That's it! I'll now look at the XML file generated. Notice that the username (userhere) is ...

Are you getting started with PowerShell? If so, this guide will help you to create and run your first script on Windows.