Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

Remote access to the command prompt (server console) via SSH is disabled by default on VMware ESXi hosts. So, when connecting to an ESXi host over SSH, you will get…

Let’s look at several ways to inventory versions and builds of Windows OSs in an Active Directory domain (it is especially relevant for Windows 10). If you haven’t any tools…

This guide should help you to migrate (move) Remote Desktop Connection Broker and RDS Web Access roles to another server. In this example, we will migrate the RDS Connection Broker…

In this article, we will show how to enable and configure Windows Remote Management (WinRM) on domain computers using Group Policy (GPO). Windows Remote Management is an implementation of the…

You can use the built-in OpenSSH package in Windows to easily enable secure file transfers between the client and Windows server using the SFTP (Secure FTP) protocol. In this article,…

The taskbar search feature in Windows 10 and 11 is used far more frequently than in previous versions. Users can use it to quickly find apps, files, and configuration options…

If your virtual machine running on Hyper-V is stuck for some reason, stopped responding, and doesn’t start/stop/reset after clicking the corresponding buttons in the Hyper-V Manager console, you can force-stop…

When a user searches using the Start menu in Windows 10 or Windows 11, the search results show suggestions from the local computer (files, apps, settings) and search results from…

PowerShell Remoting is a great tool that allows you to connect and run commands on remote computers via WinRM. If computers are joined to the Active Directory domain, then PSRemoting…

In this quick note, I’ll show you how to run multiple cmd or PowerShell commands in one line. Sometimes you have to do this when you invoke PowerShell commands from…