PowerShell

In this article, we’ll look at PowerShell features to manage Active Directory domain groups. We’ll see how to create a new group in AD, add users to it and remove…

Besides the actual time and date, Time Zone is one of the basic time settings in any computer system. If you want the time to be displayed correctly, the Time…

Windows PowerShell (as well as the Command prompt) saves the history of executed commands only in the current PowerShell session. When the PowerShell console window is closed or the computer…

We continue to study useful PowerShell cmdlets to retrieve information from Active Directory. In one of the previous articles, we talked about Get-AD User cmdlet, which allows you to get…

After performing reinstall or clean Windows installation, the user is faced with the need to install the actual driver versions for the devices installed on the computer. Immediately after reinstalling…

The majority of Windows administrators, who are familiar with PKI, know about the MakeCert.exe utility, which allows to create a self-signed certificate. This tool is included in the Microsoft .NET…

Let’s see how to track who reset the password of the particular user account in Active Directory using domain controllers security logs.

It’s no secret that since the first PowerShell version, Microsoft tries to make it the main administrative tool in Windows. And it mostly succeeds! Using simple examples, we’ll demonstrate PowerShell…

Many administrators use Group Policy feature of running startup / logoff scripts to perform different tasks. In addition to conventional BAT, CMD, VBS, etc. scripts, you can run PowerShell scripts…

The IT security department asked to develop the simplest audit system that will make up the daily statistics on Active Directory accounts created in the last 24 hours, and the…