Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

A new native package manager, WinGet (Windows Package Manager), appeared on Windows 10 and 11. You can use it to install apps from the command prompt (similar to Linux package…

SID (Security IDentifier) is a unique identifier that is assigned to users, groups, computers, or other security objects when they are created in Windows or Active Directory domain. Windows uses…

Microsoft Graph API allows you to access any objects in the Azure AD (Microsoft 365) tenant using a single REST API point (https://graph.microsoft.com). You are likely to think that it…

In this article, we’ll show how to get a date when a user or group was created in Azure AD or Microsoft 365 using PowerShell.

The Get-ADUser PowerShell cmdlet allows you to get information about an Active Directory user, its attributes, and search among domain users. It is one of the more popular PowerShell cmdlets…

In this article, we’ll look at what UPN (UserPrincipalName) suffixes in Active Directory are, how to add alternative suffixes in an AD forest, and change UPN suffixes of Active Directory…

The Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and the reg.exe command-line utility aren’t the only tools to access and manage the registry in Windows. PowerShell provides a large number of tools for the…

In this article, we’ll show how to enable DNS logging for all user queries on a DNS server running Windows Server, how to parse and analyze DNS logs. I faced…

The read-only domain controller (RODC) feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008. The main purpose of the RODC is the secure installation of the own domain controller in remote…

Current Windows versions collect information about the health of hard drives in your computer via SMART and may notify a user in case of any problems. Let’s see what a…