PowerShell

Any PowerShell script can be transformed to a real Windows service that runs in the background and starts automatically during your server boot. You can create a Windows service using…

On Windows workstations and servers, especially on RDS (Remote Desktop Services) servers, there is a regular need to remove old (unused) user profiles from C:\Users. The main problem of any…

Get-ADUser is one of the basic PowerShell cmdlets that can be used to get information about Active Directory domain users and their properties. You can use the Get-ADUser to view…

One of the main metric, which allows to estimate the performance of the existing or designed storage system is IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). In simple terms, IOPS is the…

When managing user access permissions to various resources in an Active Directory domain, an administrator may have to create dynamic AD user groups. Dynamic groups make it easier for an…

You can use PowerShell to generate QR codes to share with your friends or colleagues. Let’s consider an example of using QRCodeGenerator PowerShell module to generate a  QR code image…

I have noticed a strange thing that my brand new Lenovo laptop loses Internet connection over a Wi-Fi adapter after waking up from sleep or hibernation. In this case the…

Historically, the WindowsUpdate.log plain text file has been used to analyze the operation of the Windows Update agent and service. However, the Windows Update logs in Windows 10 (Windows Server…

Starting from Windows 10 1809, Microsoft has changed the way to install the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) package in desktop OSs. Previously, after each Windows 10 build upgrade (for…

Outlook rules allow the users to create different conditions to process the incoming email messages. You can move emails from specific senders that meet certain criteria to a folder you…