The Active Directory for Windows PowerShell module is one of the main tools to administer domain, manage objects in Active Directory and get different information about AD computers, users, groups,…
When creating new user accounts in Active Directory, an administrator sets a unique initial password for each account and tells it to a user (usually at the first logon a…
If you can access the Internet from your computer only via a proxy server, then by default you won’t be able to access external web resources from your PowerShell session:…
The DNS servers and suffixes configured for VPN connections are used in Windows 10 to resolve names using DNS in the Force Tunneling mode (“Use default gateway on remote network”…
In order to manage access to files or folders in Windows, a special ACL (Access Control List) is assigned to an NTFS file system object (a file or a folder).…
If you need to run a PowerShell script with the administrator privileges, you can check if the current powershell.exe process has the elevated permissions right in your PS code.
You can use PowerShell to view or change BIOS settings on your computer running Windows. Let’s consider some examples you can use to get or modify some BIOS settings with…
It is very convenient to use the special PSWindowsUpdate module for PowerShell to manage Windows updates from the command line interface. The PSWindowsUpdate is not integrated into Windows and is…
You can use the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to analyze mail flow, message forensics and to get different information about messages sent or received by a specific…
Any PowerShell script can be transformed to a real Windows service that runs in the background and starts automatically during your server boot. You can create a Windows service using…