Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

Windows Task Scheduler allows you to run tasks both on schedule and when a certain event appears in the Event Viewer (using Windows Event Triggers). In this article, we’ll show…

When you install or update device drivers in Windows, older versions of the drivers remain on the system drive. This allows the user to roll back to a previous driver…

In this article, we’ll show how to correctly remove (demote) an Active Directory domain controller on Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012R2. When removing a domain controller, usually one of the following scenarios…

The Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet can be used to request HTTP/HTTPS/FTP resources directly from the PowerShell console. You can use this command to send HTTP requests (GET and POST), download files from…

You can configure network port forwarding in all Windows versions without using third-party tools. Using a port forwarding rule, you can redirect an incoming TCP connection (IPv4 or IPv6) from…

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

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

If your computer is on a corporate network behind a proxy server, by default you won’t be able to access external web resources from your PowerShell CLI. For example, you…

In this article, we’ll show how to make sure your Windows copy is activated on the computer and check the Windows activation status from all computers in your Active Directory…

In this article, we’ll show how to configure a tagged VLAN interface on Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2019 (2022/2016/2012R2). The VLAN (Virtual LAN) specification is described in the IEEE…