Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

Current Windows versions collect information about the health of hard drives in your computer via SMART and may notify a user in case of any problems. Let’s see what a…

The task of searching for objects in Active Directory (users, groups, or computers) by name using some pattern, regular expression, or wildcard is not as obvious as it seems. The…

In this article, we will show how to track an event of launching a certain program (process) in Windows and perform an action (run a script, command, program, send an…

The Out-GridView cmdlet allows displaying data as an interactive graphical table that can be filtered or sorted based on different criteria. You can use the Out-Gridview cmdlet in scripts where…

When you connect a new device to your computer, laptop, or tablet, Windows tries to automatically download and install a corresponding hardware driver. Later, the operating system will automatically update…

Quite often an administrator needs to quickly find out the username logged on a remote Windows computer. In this article, we’ll show some tools and PowerShell scripts that can help…

In this article, we’ll show how to check the license type and activation status of Microsoft Office 2021/2019/2016 and Microsoft 365 (ex-Office 365) on Windows computers. You can check the…

Fine-Grained Password Policies (FGPP) allow you to create multiple password policies for specific users or groups. Multiple password policies are available starting with the Windows Server 2008 version of Active…

Recently I’ve faced quite an interesting problem when some users are unable to authenticate on some domain services due to exceeding the maximum size of the Kerberos ticket. In this…

Active Directory is a reliable, but complex and critical service, and the operability of the whole enterprise network depends on it. A system administrator should constantly check if Active Directory…