Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

In addition to operating system security updates and patches, Windows Update provides driver updates for most certified devices. When Windows Update scans your computer and finds that a newer driver…

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 yet critical service, and the functionality of the entire enterprise network depends on its proper operation. The proper functioning of Active Directory requires constant monitoring…

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) service in Windows allows you to share Internet connection on your computer with other devices in your local network (via Wi-Fi or Ethernet). This allows all…

In this article, we’ll show how to install additional fonts on computers in an Active Directory domain using Group Policy and PowerShell script. This guide was tested on current Windows…

Logging to simple text files is a convenient way to track all actions performed by a PowerShell script.  Such a log file is useful for debugging script errors and reviewing…

In this article, we’ll look at how to hide a user or distribution group from the Exchange Global Address List (GAL). This guide applies to both the cloud Exchange Online…