Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

The Windows Event Log is an important tool for administrators to track errors, warnings, and other information reports that are logged by the operating system, its components, or programs. You…

In this article, we will look at two ways to organize conditional name resolution in a DNS server on Windows Server 2016/2019/2022: DNS Conditional Forwarding and DNS Policies. These technologies…

For testing purposes or as a simple stub at the service deployment stage, I regularly need to run a simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,…

This article describes how to update Windows PowerShell to the latest version 5.1 and how to install (upgrade) PowerShell Core 7.3. There are currently two branches of PowerShell: The classic…

An Exchange mailbox can be assigned a number of additional SMTP addresses, which are known as proxy addresses (aliases). These addresses allow the user to receive e-mails that are sent…

When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that another program (process) already occupied (listening) the port you want to use. This article will show you…

You can use the Import-CSV PowerShell cmdlet to read the contents of a CSV file. Once you load the contents of the CSV file, you get a PowerShell object in…

You can allow users to send e-mails on behalf of the shared mailbox in Exchange Server and Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online). However, such an e-mail, once it has been sent,…

In Windows, you can manage the settings for your network adapters not only from the GUI but also from the PowerShell command prompt. In this article, we’ll look at the…

In some cases, Outlook clients may stop updating the Exchange Global or Offline Address Book with the error “Outlook cannot update Global Address Book 0x80200049” or 0x80070057. You can add…