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, that allow you to import or export the contents of the Exchange mailbox from / to…

In some cases an administrator needs to configure multiple IP addresses one a single network interface (NIC) in Windows. An example of such situations can be the need to run…

When the system warns you that free space on your local drive is running out, the first thing that the administrator does is trying to find all large files that…

In the previous article, we looked at the old-school VBS scripts that can be used to manage printers and print operations in all Windows versions, starting from Windows XP. Today…

As a rule, in local and global networks, files are transferred between devices using SMB, FTP or HTTP protocols. The problem of all these protocols is some troubles with resuming…

Let’s look at how to create a simple administrator notification system when someone adds a new user to the important Active Directory security group. For example you want to track…

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…

Let’s see how to track who reset the password of the particular user account in Active Directory using domain controllers security logs.

On Windows, you can clear Event Viewer logs by using the eventvwr.msc GUI snap-in, from the command prompt, and by using PowerShell.