This article is about managing Hyper-V virtual machines from the PowerShell console. We’ll look at how to create virtual switches and virtual machines, change VM settings, and manage VMs. You can use these commands to manually manage your Hyper-V VMs or in your PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks.
- PowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Backup and Restore Websites and IIS configuration
June 8, 2023In this article, we’ll look at how to backup websites, application pools, and IIS web server configuration on Windows Server. You can use an Internet Information Services backup to restore…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesWindows 10Windows Server 2019
Configuring Central Store for Group Policy ADMX Templates
February 27, 2023The Group Policy Central Store is located in the SYSVOL directory on the domain controllers, replicated between them, and used to store ADMX/ADML GPO template files used to manage Active…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2019
Delegating Administrative Permissions in Active Directory
February 20, 2023In this article, we’ll look at how to delegate administrative permissions in the Active Directory domain. Delegation allows you to grant the permissions to perform some AD management tasks to…
- Windows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2019
How to Manually Download and Install Windows Updates
June 8, 2023Microsoft releases new security updates for its products at least once a month. In most cases, the Windows Update service does an excellent job of downloading and installing Windows updates…
- ExchangeMicrosoft 365Office 365PowerShell
Mailbox Audit Logging in Exchange and Microsoft 365
February 10, 2023You can use audit logging in on-premises Exchange Server and cloud-based Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) to track all user actions on any items in a mailbox. By using mailbox activity…
In each new ESXi release, VMware updates the version of the virtual machine and the virtual hardware. In new versions of the VMware VMs, new functionality appears, new virtual devices…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows 7Windows Server 2016
Slow Access to Shared Folders and Network Drives in Windows
November 10, 2022Our users are complaining about very slow network performance when opening or saving files to a network shared folder in Windows. When a user opens a shared folder via a…
- Microsoft 365MS OfficeOffice 365
Couldn’t Verify Office 365 (Microsoft 365) Subscription
March 3, 2022This article lists common reasons why the “Couldn’t verify subscription” errors appear when you try to start Office 365 (Microsoft 365) apps (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.). The article is based…
- PowerShellVirtualizationVMWare
VMware PowerCLI: How to Install and Manage vSphere and ESXi
June 7, 2023VMware 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,…