Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

If the Windows Update service is not working properly, updates are not downloading or installing, restoring its original settings is the easiest and most effective solution. In this article, we’ll…

You can use the PSWindowsUpdate PowerShell module to manage Windows Updates from the command line. PSWindowsUpdate module is available for download from the PowerShell Gallery and allows administrators to scan,…

In this article, we’ll show you how to get the last login date and sign-in activity of your Azure Active Directory users, export and analyze Azure sign-in and audit logs…

SR-IOV (Single Root Input/Output Virtualization) is a host hardware device virtualization technology that allows virtual machines to have direct access to host devices. It can virtualize different types of devices,…

You can store various useful information in the description of computer objects in Active Directory. For example, information about the computer model, hardware inventory, or the last logged-on username. In…

UserAccountControl is one of the most important attributes of the user and computer objects in Active Directory. This attribute determines the state of the account in the AD domain: whether…

By default, traffic in a PowerShell Remoting session is encrypted no matter whether HTTP (TCP/5985) or HTTPS (TCP/5986) transport protocol is used. Anyway, all traffic is encrypted using the AES-256…

When you connect a new COM device or a USB device to your computer (USB modem, mobile phone, Bluetooth adapter, serial to USB converters, etc.), Windows detects it using Plug-n-Play…

An on-prem Exchange or cloud Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) administrator must control user mailbox sizes. In this article, we’ll show how to get current mailbox sizes and set mailbox quotas…

Several times I came across a situation when files were copied much slower from/to virtual machines on a Hyper-V host running Windows Server 2019 than in a VM of the…