Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

The built-in SMBShare PowerShell module allows you to create, configure, and manage shared network folders in Windows. In this article, we will look at how to manage file shares (SMB…

An automatic reply feature (Auto-Reply, Out of Office Message/OOF) allows an Exchange user to configure a rule in their mailbox to automatically send a specific message in reply to all…

You can simplify the deployment of the operating system on typical workstations (servers) if you add all the necessary drivers to the Drive Store of your Windows install image. In…

If your company has several system administrators, sometimes you may want to know who rebooted the server. In this article. I will show you how to identify a user who…

For one of the projects, I needed a PowerShell script to find duplicate files in the shared network folder of a file server. There are a number of third-party tools…

You can send messages to Teams channels from PowerShell using webhook or Microsoft Graph API calls. Let’s see how to send and read messages in Microsoft Teams channels using PowerShell.…

In this article, we’ll look at how to uninstall software on a local or remote Windows computer using PowerShell. Quite often, the system administrator uses scripts to uninstall Windows applications.…

This guide shows how to install, configure, and maintain a terminal server farm based on the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) role on Windows Server. The article will help you to…

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) is widely used by developers, administrators, and common users to run different Linux distros (Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Kali Linux, Alpine), tools, and apps in Windows…

In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the VMware ESXi installation ISO image (6.7 or 7.0). The ESXi installation image supports (certified) the most popular server…