Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

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…

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…