Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

The Microsoft Edge browser is installed by default on Windows 11 and all new Windows 10 builds (and Windows Server 2022/2019). If you have another browser installed on the computers…

Multiple users can access a shared mailbox in Exchange. Unlike a common user mailbox, a shared mailbox account is disabled in Active Directory and cannot be used for interactive sign-in.…

User Profile Disk (UPD) allows you to store the profile of each Remote Desktop Services user (%USERPROFILE%) in a separate VHDX (virtual disk) file. Such a profile disk is connected…

By default, Windows saves all of the commands that you type in the PowerShell console to a text log file. This allows you to re-run any command and view the…

Every Windows system administrator should be able to use not only graphical AD snap-ins (usually it is ADUC, Active Directory Users and Computers), but also PowerShell cmdlets to perform everyday…

In this article, we will show you how to find duplicate SMTP addresses in your Exchange Server organization. If your organization has non-unique SMTP addresses, Exchange returns an error when…

Microsoft has officially ended support for Internet Explorer (IE) in all current builds of Windows 10 and 11 since June 15, 2022 (except LTSC editions and Windows Server). The classic…

Administrators should occasionally delete old user profiles (retired or inactive users, etc.) from C:\Users on Windows workstations and servers. The Windows user profile cleanup task is most commonly performed on…

In this article, we will look at how to enable the Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.2) protocol on different Windows versions, including cases for .Net and WinHTTP applications. TLS 1.0…

In this article, we will look at several ways to manage non-admin user permissions to restart or shutdown Windows workstations or servers. By default, non-privileged users can only reboot and…