Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

Microsoft Graph API allows you to access any objects in the Azure AD (Microsoft 365) tenant using a single REST API point (https://graph.microsoft.com). You are likely to think that it…

The Get-ADUser is the most commonly used PowerShell cmdlet for retrieving Active Directory user information, including attributes like usernames, email addresses, account activity, group memberships, contact details, job titles, organizational…

In this article, we’ll look at what UPN (UserPrincipalName) suffixes in Active Directory are, how to add alternative suffixes in an AD forest and change UPN suffixes of Active Directory…

When managing a large fleet of servers and workstations, it is useful to have basic information about the computer displayed on the system desktop. For example, it can include the…

The Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and the reg.exe command-line utilities aren’t the only tools to access and manage the registry in Windows. PowerShell provides a large number of tools for the…

In this article, we’ll show how to enable DNS logging for all user queries on a DNS server running Windows Server, how to parse and analyze DNS logs. I faced…

The read-only domain controller (RODC) feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008. The main purpose of the RODC is the secure installation of the own domain controller in remote…

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…