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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…

The Set-ADComputer cmdlet allows you to change the attributes of a computer account object in Active Directory. In this article, we’ll show how to add current logged-in username and IP…

Let’s consider some ways to block access to the specific websites, domain names, URLs or IP addresses in Windows without using third-party tools. In our case, we will try to…

The Active Directory for Windows PowerShell module is one of the main tools to administer domain, manage objects in Active Directory and get different information about AD computers, users, groups,…

When creating new user accounts in Active Directory, an administrator sets a unique initial password for each account and tells it to a user (usually at the first logon a…

If you can access the Internet from your computer only via a proxy server, then by default you won’t be able to access external web resources from your PowerShell session:…

The DNS servers and suffixes configured for VPN connections are used in Windows 10 to resolve names using DNS in the Force Tunneling mode (“Use default gateway on remote network”…

In order to manage access to files or folders in Windows, a special ACL (Access Control List) is assigned to an NTFS file system object (a file or a folder).…