Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

In this article we’ll show how to read and write data from Excel worksheets directly from PowerShell scripts. You can use Excel along with PowerShell to inventory and generate various…

Most users and administrators use the taskschd.msc graphical interface console to create and manage scheduled tasks on Windows. However, in various scripts and automated flows, it is much more convenient…

To deploy new virtual machines in VMWare, VM templates are typically used. A VMWare VM template is a reference virtual machine copy with the configured settings, installed software and security…

After you deploy Exchange, you may notice that free disk space starts to decrease very quickly. In addition to the growth of the mailbox databases themselves, the various logs take…

In this article we will learn how to use the Invoke-Command cmdlet to run PowerShell commands or scripts remotely. You can use PowerShell to run commands remotely on one or…

Distribution groups (lists) are a special type of recipients in Exchange. A distribution group has an email address but doesn’t have a mailbox. Emails sent to the distribution list are…

In this article we’ll show how to fix a broken trust relationship between a workstation and an Active Directory domain when a user cannot logon to their domain computer. Let’s…

Windows 10 ships with some preinstalled modern UWP apps (they are also called Metro apps, Microsoft Store or APPX packages). These are Calculator, Calendar, Mail, Cortana, Maps, News, OneNote, Groove…

A script or an executable with a digital signature allows a user to make sure that a file is original and its code has not been changed by third parties.…

By default, Windows settings prevent PowerShell scripts from running. From a security perspective, it is important to restrict untrusted and malicious code from running from PowerShell scripts. The Execution Policy…