Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

A separate account of type Computer is created for a computer when you join it to an Active Directory domain. A computer object in AD has several mandatory attributes: sAMAccountName,…

This post explains several methods for blocking access to specific websites, domains, URLs, or IP addresses on a Windows computer without using third-party tools. The most effective way to block…

When creating new user accounts in Active Directory, an administrator sets a unique initial password for each account and tells it to a user (usually at the first logon a…

Force Tunnel mode is enabled by default for all VPN connections in Windows (the ‘Use default gateway on remote network‘ option enabled in the VPN settings). In this mode, name…

You can use the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to analyze mail flow, message forensics and to get different information about messages sent or received by a specific…

This article discusses the specifics of organizing virtual machine backups in the Microsoft Hyper-V environment. We’ll look at the basic requirements for Hyper-V backup solutions, backup strategies, and the main…

Any PowerShell script can be transformed into a real Windows service that runs in the background and starts automatically during your server boot. You can create a Windows service using…

In this article, we’ll explore ways to manage the Start Menu and taskbar layouts in both Windows 11 and Windows 10. With the ability to import and export Start menu…

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…