Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

This article shows how to create a new virtual machine on a VMware ESXi host and install a guest operating system from an ISO image. Let’s see how to create…

In this article, we will take a look at the most common errors that occur when installing language packs in Windows 10 and 11.

From time to time, you may need to export the full list of email addresses in your Exchange organization. In this article we will show how to get and export…

In this article, we’ll look at manual and automated ways to deploy additional language packs and set the default language in Microsoft Office 2019, 2016, and Microsoft 365 Apps for…

You can use your Telegram messenger as a notification tool to get instant reports on various infrastructure events, script execution results, or scheduler tasks. This article shows you how to…

In this article, we’ll look at how to access and export the history of Microsoft Teams chat conversations using PowerShell. Teams chats are stored in a hidden Conversation history\Team Chat…

You can use a no-reply mailbox in scenarios where you need to send automatic mailings, notifications, or information newsletters to your customers and do not expect anyone to reply. A…

By default, the built-in Windows VPN client does not allow you to connect to the VPN server until the user logs in. This is inconvenient for Active Directory-joined computers connected…

To send e-mail through an SMTP server from PowerShell scripts, you can use the built-in Send-MailMessage cmdlet. Its major drawback is that it can only use Basic SMTP authentication and…

In this article, we will look at configuring the Zabbix Agent to retrieve monitoring data from PowerShell scripts. Let’s look at two PowerShell scripts to get some data into Zabbix.…