PowerShell

In this article we’ll consider how to change (or reset) a users’ Active Directory passwords using the PowerShell cmdlet Set-ADAccountPassword.

Administrators often have to store passwords in automation scenario directly in the body of PowerShell scripts. As you know, it is extremely insecure when used in a productive environment, since…

You can use the PowerShell cmdlet Get-ADComputer to get various information about computer account objects (servers and workstations) from Active Directory domain. This is one of the most useful cmdlets…

In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the ESXi 6.7 installation ISO image. Despite VMWare ESXi image is certified (supported) for most popular server models, it…

A RAM disk is a virtual disk created in a free area of the memory (RAM) that it sees by the OS as a separate physical disk. Due to the…

In this article we’ll look on the disk, partition and volume management from PowerShell console. You can perform from PowerShell all the operations of managing local disks and partitions, that…

Group Policy allows you to run various script files at a computer startup/shutdown or during user logon/logout. You can use GPOs not only to run classic batch files on a…

The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere console means that when deleting a snapshot (using the option…

In Windows environment, each domain and local user, group and other security objects are assigned a unique identifier — Security Identifier or SID. It is a SID, but not the…

In this article we’ll consider the features of auditing and analyzing RDP connection logs in Windows. As a rule, the described methods may be useful when investigating RDP-related activity on…