Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

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…

With PowerShell, you can automate common printer and printer driver management tasks in Windows. This guide explains how to create, delete, or share a printer from the PowerShell console; set…

If you need to download (transfer) a large file to a remote computer without overloading the network channel, we recommend using the BITS protocol. BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer service) is…

Access-based Enumeration (ABE) is a shared folder option in Windows that allows to hide files and folders that users don’t have permission to access. ABE is used to hide the…

It can be difficult to track exactly who made certain changes when the Active Directory domain infrastructure is managed by multiple administrators (added or removed a user from a security…

You can use a simple PowerShell command to find out the current public IP address that your Windows computer uses to access the Internet. There are a large number of…

How to quickly estimate the current number of user connections (sessions) to the IIS sites on webserver running on Windows Server? Such information will allow to determine and predict the…