Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches the specific Windows VM disk.…

In this article we’ll talk about Active Directory domain controller backup and learn how to configure automatic AD backup using PowerShell and built-in Windows Server tools.

I have had an idea to write a simple PowerShell script to automatically block (blacklist) IP addresses, on which RDP brute-force attempts or continuous RDP attacks are detected, in Windows…

You can manage Windows services not only from the services.msc snap-in or sc.exe command line tool, but also using PowerShell. In this article we’ll consider different scenarios of managing Windows…

In Windows Server 2012R2/2016/2019, you can use the graphical Server Manager console to install and remove server roles and features. However, in most cases you can do the same from…

You can use the Get-ADDomainController PowerShell cmdlet to get information about the domain controllers in Active Directory. This cmdlet is a part of PowerShell Active Directory module and requires RSAT…

A Windows administrator can use the good old Dnscmd cli tool or DNSServer module for PowerShell to manage DNS zones and records. In this article we’ll cover the basic operations…

In this article, we’ll consider how to find domain controllers with FSMO roles in Active Directory, how to transfer one or more FSMO roles to another (additional/secondary) domain controller, and…

In one of the previous articles we showed how to use the Set-ADComputer cmdlet in a GPO logon script to save  the current logged in user info to the properties…

The Set-ADComputer cmdlet allows you to change the attributes of a computer account object in Active Directory. In this article, we’ll show how to add current logged-in username and IP…