Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…
Windows Defender Antivirus is Microsoft’s free built-in antivirus that comes installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and 2019 (since Windows 10 2004 the name Microsoft Defender is used). In…
In this article we will look at how to find out the date a user was created in Active Directory; how to use PowerShell to get information from the domain…
In this article, we will show you how to check the free disk space and disk usage on a local or remote Windows host using PowerShell. Also, consider how to…
You can use the built-in telnet command line tool to connect to a remote SMTP server and send a test e-mail. This is the easiest and fastest way to test…
The version of Active Directory in Windows Server 2016 introduces an interesting feature that allows you to temporarily add a user to an AD security group. This feature is called…
You can use RDS Drain Mode to maintain terminal hosts in a Remote Desktop Services farm. If you enable Drain Mode for your RDS server, you can prevent the server…
You can use Managed Service Accounts (MSA) to securely run services, applications, and scheduler tasks on servers and workstations in an Active Directory domain. The MSA is a special type…
The Set-ADUser cmdlet allows to modify user properties (attributes) in Active Directory using PowerShell. Traditionally, a graphic MMC snap-in dsa.msc (Active Directory Users and Computers, ADUC) is used to edit…
You can access the data in an Excel file directly from within PowerShell. Although PowerShell has built-in cmdlets for importing (Import-CSV) and exporting (Export-CSV) tabular data from/to CSV files, the…