Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications from the Microsoft Store typically require online installation. However, when you actually install a UWP application, the Microsoft Store client downloads and installs the application…

In this article, I tried to describe the basic cmd and PowerShell commands that are useful for configuring and managing Windows Server Core hosts. I think this guide will be…

Many administrators usually use the netstat console tool or the graphical TCPView to display information about active TCP/IP connections and open TCP and UDP ports in Windows. In this article, we’ll…

Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…

Windows Defender Antivirus is Microsoft’s free built-in antivirus that comes installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and 2019 (since Windows 10 2004 the name Microsoft Defender is used). In…

In this article we will look at how to find out the date a user was created in Active Directory; how to use PowerShell to get information from the domain…

In this article, we will show you how to check the free disk space and disk usage on a local or remote Windows host using PowerShell. Also, consider how to…

You can use the built-in telnet command line tool to connect to a remote SMTP server and send a test e-mail. This is the easiest and fastest way to test…

The version of Active Directory in Windows Server 2016 introduces an interesting feature that allows you to temporarily add a user to an AD security group. This feature is called…

You can use RDS Drain Mode to maintain terminal hosts in a Remote Desktop Services farm. If you enable Drain Mode for your RDS server, you can prevent the server…