PowerShell

In PowerShell 3.0 you can directly access and parse HTML web pages on the Internet. To do it, a special Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet was introduced. This cmdlet allows you to implement…

Hi, admin! In one of my PowerShell scripts, I needed to determine the current external IP address of the Windows computer from the command line or (best) with some simple…

Most AD administrators use the repadmin (appeared in Windows Server 2003) and replmon (must be copied from Support Tool for WS2003) console tools to monitor and control Active Directory replication.…

How to quickly estimate the current number of user connections (sessions) to the IIS sites on webserver running on Windows Server? Such information will allow to determine and predict the…

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

By default, to connect to a remote computer using PowerShell (PowerShell Remoting) you need the administrator privileges. In this article we’ll show how to allow remote connection using PowerShell Remoting…

One of the useful PowerShell features is the opportunity to connect to databases on remote servers, including MySQL ones. Thus, you can address MySQL tables to access data directly from…

In this article we’ll demonstrate how to fill the computer information in Active Directory using PowerShell. As an example, we’ll show how to save the information about the computer model…

Recently Hewlett-Packard has issued a set of 110 PowerShell cmdlets allowing Windows administrators and IT professionals to remotely configure and manage HP ILO interfaces on HP servers from Windows systems.…