Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

Windows Event Viewer Logs store useful information that is needed when analyzing the status of services and applications in Windows, troubleshooting errors, and auditing security events. By default, the sizes…

In some cases, the administrator needs to find out which process (program) or user has changed the NTFS permissions on a specific folder or file on a Windows file server.…

When investigating various incidents, an administrator needs to know who logged on to a particular Windows computer and when. You can get a history of user logons in a domain…

The Windows Event Log is an important tool for administrators to track errors, warnings, and other information reports that are logged by the operating system, its components, or programs. You…

In this article, we will look at two ways to organize conditional name resolution in a DNS server on Windows Server 2016/2019/2022: DNS Conditional Forwarding and DNS Policies. These technologies…

For testing purposes or as a simple stub at the service deployment stage, I regularly need to run a simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,…

This article describes how to update Windows PowerShell to the latest version 5.1 and how to install (upgrade) PowerShell Core 7.3. There are currently two branches of PowerShell: The classic…

An Exchange mailbox can be assigned a number of additional SMTP addresses, which are known as proxy addresses (aliases). These addresses allow the user to receive e-mails that are sent…

When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that another program (process) already occupied (listening) the port you want to use. This article will show you…

You can use the Import-CSV PowerShell cmdlet to read the contents of a CSV file. Once you load the contents of the CSV file, you get a PowerShell object in…