Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

When you create a new user in an Active Directory domain, sometimes you need to make them a member of a large number of groups. It is quite tiresome to…

Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…

A HelpDesk support team asked me to write a PowerShell script to quickly get a screenshot of a user desktop from a remote computer. The main condition is that the…

You can use file system object access event auditing to identify a specific user who created, deleted, or modified a specific file. In this article, we’ll show you how to…

In this article we’ll show how to find out when a password of an Active Directory user account expires using PowerShell, how to set a password to never expire (PasswordNeverExpires…

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is widely used on user computers to run different enterprise Java apps . However, some apps require the specific Java version and may work incorrectly in…

Very often when deleting snapshots or consolidating disks of virtual machines running on VMWare ESXi hosts, I see the “Unable to access a file since it is locked” error. This…

The Server Message Block (SMB) 1.0 file-sharing protocol is disabled by default in the latest versions of Windows 11 and 10 and in Windows Server 2019/2022. This version of the…

In this article we will consider how to install and configure MPIO on Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. MPIO (Multi—Path Input Output) is a technology that allows to build fault-tolerant transport to a data storage system…

The Saved Queries in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) MMC console allow you to create complex LDAP filters to select Active Directory objects. These queries can be saved, edited,…