Windows Explorer integration for Source Control Explorer

Hi together,
we've setupped an Online TFS to organize our Powershell Scripts in our Team. After that we've installed the Source Control Explorer for checking items in and out. From within the Source Control Explorer this works flawless.
Some time ago i've worked with TortoiseSVN for Source Control and there were a Windows Explorer Integration which was super easy to use for making new local repositorys, checkin and checkout, is there something similar for TFS? Because we only write Powershell
Scripts, we don't need Visual Studio and it would be easier to work directly in the Windows Explorer.
Thanks for any tips and tricks!
Rolf

Hi Rolf,
Thanks for your post.
You’re using VSO Account?
What’s the version of your VS? if you’re using VS 2013, you can install the
TFS 2013 Power Tools on your client. If you installed the TFS 2013 Power Tools on your VS 2013 client, after you mapped and got the source file to local workspace folder using Source Control Explorer, you can right-click on the local workspace folder and
select Team Foundation Server menu to perform check in/out.
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