I have had an idea to write a simple PowerShell script to automatically block (blacklist) IP addresses, on which RDP brute-force attempts or continuous RDP attacks are detected, in Windows…
This article gives the basics on how to manage settings and rules of built-in Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security using PowerShell. We’ll consider how to enable/disable the firewall for…
You can manage Windows services not only from the services.msc snap-in or sc.exe command line tool, but also using PowerShell. In this article we’ll consider different scenarios of managing Windows…
In Windows Server 2012R2/2016/2019, you can use the graphical Server Manager console to install and remove server roles and features. However, in most cases you can do the same from…
You can use the Get-ADDomainController PowerShell cmdlet to get information about the domain controllers in Active Directory. This cmdlet is a part of PowerShell Active Directory module and requires RSAT…
Windows Hyper-V Server is a free hypervisor platform by Microsoft to run virtual machines. In this article, we’ll look on how to install and configure the latest version of Windows…
Most administrators use the PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) to build their PowerShell scripts. But by now Microsoft has almost stopped developing PowerShell ISE and recommends using a more powerful,…
A Windows administrator can use the good old Dnscmd cli tool or DNSServer module for PowerShell to manage DNS zones and records. In this article we’ll cover the basic operations…
In this article we’ll consider how to find domain controllers with FSMO roles in Active Directory, how to transfer one or more FSMO roles to another (additional/secondary) domain controller and…
In one of the previous articles we showed how to use the Set-ADComputer cmdlet in a GPO logon script to save the current logged in user info to the properties…