Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

The task of searching for objects in Active Directory (users, groups, or computers) by name using some pattern, regular expression, or wildcard is not as obvious as it really seems.…

In this article, we will show how to track an event of launching a certain program (process) in Windows and perform an action (run a script, command, program, send an…

The Out-GridView cmdlet allows displaying data as an interactive graphical table that can be filtered or sorted based on different criteria. You can use the Out-Gridview cmdlet in scripts where…

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) allows you to remotely connect to the desktop of a computer running Windows and work with it as if it is your local computer. By…

When you connect a new device to your computer, laptop, or tablet, Windows tries to automatically download and install a corresponding hardware driver. Later, the operating system will automatically update…

Quite often an administrator needs to quickly find out the username logged on a remote Windows computer. In this article, we’ll show some tools and PowerShell scripts that can help…

In this article, we’ll show several ways to check the license type and activation status of Microsoft Office 2022/2019/2016 and Office 365 copies on Windows computers. We’ll discuss how to…

Fine-Grained Password Policies (FGPP) allow you to create multiple password policies for specific users or groups. Multiple password policies are available starting with the Windows Server 2008 version of Active…

Recently I’ve faced a quite interesting problem when some users are unable to authenticate on some domain services due to exceeding the maximum size of the Kerberos ticket. In this…

Active Directory is a reliable, but complex and critical service, and the operability of the whole enterprise network depends on it. A system administrator should constantly check if Active Directory…