Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

Wi-Fi signal strength affects the quality of your Internet connection. On Windows, you can check the current Wi-Fi signal strength in several ways. I tried to learn how to check…

Quite often when creating new Organizational Units (OUs), an Active Directory administrator has to create a structure of nested containers inside a new OU. For example, when a company opens…

Windows 10 and 11 have a built-in Microsoft Defender Antivirus (quite good, I should say) managed through the Windows Security Center. In some cases, Microsoft Defender or Security control panel…

Windows updates are released as packages with the MSU or CAB file extensions. If the Windows Update service is not working (or disabled), you can manually download and install the…

Domain users can change their password either via the Windows Security menu after logging in, or directly from the Windows login screen if their password has expired. If a user…

In earlier Windows versions (Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2), you may see the Unable to download from URI error when trying to install modules from the PowerShell Gallery using…

When you install a new Exchange Server 2019/2016/2013/2010 with the mailbox role, the default mailbox database is automatically created. The database is created in the Exchange installation folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange…

By default, Active Directory users can log on to any domain-joined computer locally with their accounts. This is because all new users created in Active Directory are automatically added to…

When auditing mailbox permissions in an Exchange Server organization or Microsoft 365 tenant (Exchange Online), the administrator needs to find all the mailboxes that a particular user has access to.…

NIC Teaming (or Load Balancing/Failover – LBFO, or NIC bonding) allows joining multiple physical network adapters (NICs) into a single logical network card. In this article, we’ll show how to…