Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a set of PowerShell modules to manage VMware infrastructure from the command prompt. You can use PowerCLI to get a state of virtual machines, datastores, networks,…

Today, PowerShell is an open cross-platform shell and scripting language that can be installed and used on Windows, Linux, macOS, and other platforms. In this article, we’ll show how to…

In Exchange Server, you can use the Search-Mailbox or New-ComplianceSearch PowerShell cmdlets (available in newer versions of Exchange Server and Exchange Online/Microsoft 365) to search for and delete email items…

If the Windows Update service is not working properly, updates are not downloaded or installed, then the easiest and most effective way to solve the problem with the Windows Update…

You can use the PSWindowsUpdate PowerShell module to manage Windows updates from the command line. The PSWindowsUpdate module is not built into Windows and is available for installation from the…

In this article, we’ll show you how to get the last login date and sign-in activity of your Azure Active Directory users, export and analyze Azure sign-in and audit logs…

SR-IOV (Single Root Input/Output Virtualization) is a host hardware device virtualization technology that allows virtual machines to have direct access to host devices. It can virtualize different types of devices,…

You can store various useful information in the description of computer objects in Active Directory. For example, information about the computer model, hardware inventory, or the last logged-on username. In…

UserAccountControl is one of the most important attributes of the user and computer objects in Active Directory. This attribute determines the state of the account in the AD domain: whether…

By default, traffic in a PowerShell Remoting session is encrypted no matter whether HTTP (TCP/5985) or HTTPS (TCP/5986) transport protocol is used. Anyway, all traffic is encrypted using AES-256 key.…