Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

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…

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

PowerShell Remoting (PSRemoting) enables administrators to remotely manage Windows computers and servers, run scripts and commands, and perform administrative tasks. PowerShell Remoting is built on the Windows Remote Management (WinRM)…

You can connect to a MySQL/MariaDB database, select data from a table, and add, update, and delete table entries directly from a PowerShell script. In this post, we’ll look at…

By default, the built-in Windows VPN client does not attempt to reconnect to the VPN server if the connection is lost. If the connection is dropped, the user must manually…

Windows displays a security warning when you try to open or run an executable file/script that you downloaded from the Internet. This article explains how Windows identifies a file downloaded…