Compress and Expand Zips

Powershell 5.0 has cmdlets to handle file compression.

# Create a zip file with the contents of C:\Stuff\
Compress-Archive -Path C:\Stuff -DestinationPath archive.zip

# Add more files to the zip file
# (Existing files in the zip file with the same name are replaced)
Compress-Archive -Path C:\OtherStuff\*.txt -Update -DestinationPath archive.zip

# Extract the zip file to C:\Destination\
Expand-Archive -Path archive.zip -DestinationPath C:\Destination


above is from
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1153126/how-to-create-a-zip-archive-with-powershell