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Learn how to design and build your own interactive menus inside your PowerShell scripts. This will help non-PowerShell users easily navigate and use them.

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AdWords Scripts are incredibly powerful tools for paid search, but since many of us don’t come from coding backgrounds they can also be intimidating. This is the first in a three-part series covering ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, there always seems to come a time when a single script just isn't enough. Although it's important to keep your scripts as simple as possible, it's also important to ...