Microsoft Graph API allows you to access any objects in the Azure AD (Microsoft 365) tenant using a single REST API point (https://graph.microsoft.com). You are likely to think that it…
Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2019
Get-ADUser: Find Active Directory User Info with PowerShell
March 15, 2024The Get-ADUser PowerShell cmdlet allows you to get information about an Active Directory user, its attributes, and search among domain users. It is one of the more popular PowerShell cmdlets…
- Active DirectoryAzure and Microsoft 365PowerShell
Configuring UserPrincipalName and UPN Suffixes in Active Directory
March 11, 2024In this article, we’ll look at what UPN (UserPrincipalName) suffixes in Active Directory are, how to add alternative suffixes in an AD forest and change UPN suffixes of Active Directory…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
PowerShell: Get, Modify, Create, and Remove Registry Keys or Parameters
March 11, 2024The Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and the reg.exe command-line utilities aren’t the only tools to access and manage the registry in Windows. PowerShell provides a large number of tools for the…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Enable DNS Query Logging and Parse Log File on Windows Server
March 17, 2024In this article, we’ll show how to enable DNS logging for all user queries on a DNS server running Windows Server, how to parse and analyze DNS logs. I faced…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2019Windows Server 2022
Install and Configure a Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) on Windows Server 2019/2022
March 15, 2024The read-only domain controller (RODC) feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008. The main purpose of the RODC is the secure installation of the own domain controller in remote…
Current Windows versions collect information about the health of hard drives in your computer via SMART and may notify a user in case of any problems. Let’s see what a…
The task of searching for objects in Active Directory (users, groups, or computers) by name using some pattern, regular expression, or wildcard is not as obvious as it seems. The…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
Run a Script (Program) When a Specific Program Opens/Closes in Windows
March 13, 2024In this article, we will show how to track an event of launching a certain program (process) in Windows and perform an action (run a script, command, program, send an…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
Using Out-GridView to View and Select Table Data in PowerShell
March 16, 2024The Out-GridView cmdlet allows displaying data as an interactive graphical table that can be filtered or sorted based on different criteria. You can use the Out-Gridview cmdlet in scripts where…