Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

One of the main metric, which allows to estimate the performance of the existing or designed storage system is IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). In simple terms, IOPS is the…

When managing access permissions to different resources in an Active Directory domain, an administrator may need to create dynamic security user groups. The idea of a dynamic group is that…

In current builds of Windows 10 and 11, the wuauserv Windows Update service logs are not written directly to the WindowsUpdate.log text file. Instead, binary Event Trace Log (ETL) files…

A RAM disk is a virtual drive created in a free area of RAM that the OS sees as a normal local hard drive. The advantage of RAM Drive is…

In this article, we’ll look at the disk, partition, and volume management from the PowerShell console. You can perform from PowerShell all the operations of managing local disks and partitions,…

You can use PowerShell to show pop-up or toast messages to notify Windows users about important events. To get information from the user or confirm an action, you can use…

In the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (and newer), special PowerShell cmdlets appeared: New-MailboxImportRequest and New-MailboxExportRequest, which allow you to import or export the contents of the Exchange mailbox from/to PST…

Windows allows to assign multiple IP addresses (aliases) to a single physical network adapter. This can be useful when you want to run multiple websites with unique IP addresses on…

In this step-by-step guide, we’ll look at how to install and configure an FTP server for easy file transfer on Windows Server. The built-in FTP server is available in all…

To find large files on a computer, you can use Windows File Explorer, one of the third-party tools (such as WinDirStat or TreeSize), or your favorite file manager. In some…