PowerShell

We continue to study useful PowerShell cmdlets to retrieve information from Active Directory. In one of the previous articles, we talked about Get-AD User cmdlet, which allows you to get…

After performing reinstall or clean Windows installation, the user is faced with the need to install the actual driver versions for the devices installed on the computer. Immediately after reinstalling…

The majority of Windows administrators, who are familiar with PKI, know about the MakeCert.exe utility, which allows to create a self-signed certificate. This tool is included in the Microsoft .NET…

Let’s see how to track who reset the password of the particular user account in Active Directory using domain controllers security logs.

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…