Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

In this article, we’ll look at the disk, partition, and volume management from the PowerShell console. You can perform from PowerShell all the operations of managing local disks and partitions,…

You can use PowerShell to show pop-up or toast messages to notify Windows users about important events. To get information from the user or confirm an action, you can use…

In the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (and newer), special PowerShell cmdlets appeared: New-MailboxImportRequest and New-MailboxExportRequest, which allow you to import or export the contents of the Exchange mailbox from/to PST…

Windows allows to assign multiple IP addresses (aliases) to a single physical network adapter. This can be useful when you want to run multiple websites with unique IP addresses on…

In this step-by-step guide, we’ll look at how to install and configure an FTP server for easy file transfer on Windows Server. The built-in FTP server is available in all…

When the system warns you that free space on your local drive is running out, the first thing that the administrator does is trying to find all large files that…

In the previous article, we looked at the old-school VBS scripts that can be used to manage printers and print operations in all Windows versions, starting from Windows XP. Today…

If you need to download (transfer) a large file to a remote computer without overloading the network channel, we recommend using the BITS protocol. BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer service) is…

It can be difficult to track exactly who made certain changes when the Active Directory domain infrastructure is managed by multiple administrators (added or removed a user from a security…

You can use a simple PowerShell command to find out the current public IP address that your Windows computer uses to access the Internet. There are a large number of…