There are several different tools to get information about the time of a user logon to an Active Directory domain. The time of the last successful user authentication in an…
When connecting from home to a corporate VPN server (AlwaysOnVPN, Windows Server RRAS or OpenVPN), users complain that they don’t have Internet access on their computer with an active VPN…
In this article we will show how to update your Windows PowerShell version to the latest 5.1 and install (upgrade to) PowerShell Core 7.1. In a previous article we told…
After removing any object in Active Directory (a user, a group, a computer or an OU), you can restore it. In this article we’ll show how to restore a removed…
The complexity of a user password in Active Directory domain is one of the key security elements both for user data, and the entire domain infrastructure. Many users prefer to…
When you create a new user in an Active Directory domain, sometimes you need to make them a member of a large number of groups. It is quite tiresome to…
Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…
A HelpDesk support team asked me to write a PowerShell script to quickly get a screenshot of a user desktop from a remote computer. The main condition is that the…
You can use file system object access event auditing to identify a specific user who created, deleted, or modified a specific file. In this article, we’ll show you how to…
In this article we will discuss all effective ways to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server and run SQL queries from PowerShell. There are many ways how you can work…