PowerShell

It’s no secret that since the first PowerShell version, Microsoft tries to make it the main administrative tool in Windows. And it mostly succeeds! Using simple examples, we’ll demonstrate PowerShell…

Many administrators use Group Policy feature of running startup / logoff scripts to perform different tasks. In addition to conventional BAT, CMD, VBS, etc. scripts, you can run PowerShell scripts…

The IT security department asked to develop the simplest audit system that will make up the daily statistics on Active Directory accounts created in the last 24 hours, and the…

Most administrators use the graphic interface of Taskschd.msc console to create Windows Task Scheduler jobs. However, in various scripts and automated jobs, it is much more convenient to use the…

If you access the Internet in the organization via the proxy server, by default you won’t be able to access an external webpage (Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet), update help using Update-Help cmdlet…

Quite an often task of an Active Directory administrator is to make a list of disabled or inactive accounts and computers, or a list of accounts with expired passwords. To…

Starting from its first version, PowerShell offers an administrator an extensive set of tools to interact with Windows system registry. If necessary, all typical operations with the registry can be…

By default, to connect to a remote computer using PowerShell (PowerShell Remoting) you need the administrator privileges. In this article we’ll show how to allow remote connection using PowerShell Remoting…

A script or an executable with a digital signature allows a user to make sure that a file is original and its code has not been changed by third parties.…

PowerShell Direct is a new PowerShell feature in Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 that allows to create a direct local PowerShell session with any virtual machine run on a…