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 or download an application package from an external package repository (using PackageManagement or NanoServerPackage) from your PowerShell session. In this.. read more
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How to Find Blocked, Disabled or Inactive Objects in AD Using Search-ADAccount
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 do it, you can use either the saved LDAP queries in the ADUC console, or already familiar PowerShell cmdlets, like.. read more
How to Access and Manage Windows Registry with PowerShell
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 performed not in the good old Regedit interface, or reg.exe, but in PowerShell command prompt. In different scripts and scenarios.. read more
PowerShell Remoting via WinRM for Non-Admin Users
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 (WinRM) for common users (without the administrator privileges) with the help of a security group, a Group Policy and modification.. read more
How to Sign PowerShell Script with a Code Signing Certificate
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 also has an integrated feature to sign a *.ps1 script files.
Hyper-V PowerShell Direct in Windows Server 2016
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 Hyper-V host, meanwhile the connection is established not via the network, but through the internal VM bus. Thus, a Hyper-V.. read more
Checking TCP Port Response Using PowerShell
From time to time, any administrator has to check service availability on a remote server by testing remote TCP port response. Meanwhile, everybody got used to doing it quickly using telnet command. For example, to make sure the SMTP service is response on a mail server (by default, it responds.. read more
How to Import User Photo to Active Directory Using PowerShell
Among user attributes starting from the version of Active Directory schema in Windows Server 2000, there is a special attribute thumbnailPhoto, in which a user photo (or any other images) can be stored as binary data. Outlook since 2010, Lync, SharePoint (and other applications) can use the data contained in.. read more
Auditing Users Password Strength in AD
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. As a rule, users prefer to use weak, easy-to-remember passwords. Thus, they significantly reduce the level of protection against hackers for their accounts. In this.. read more
Tracking Files Deletion using Audit Policy and MSSQL
Any Windows administrator has come across the situation when angry users want to know who has deleted a very important file of the annual report from the share on the file server. This information can be obtained only if you have enabled the audit of the deleted files and folders.. read more
