Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

For one of the projects, I needed a PowerShell script to find duplicate files in the shared network folder of a file server. There are a number of third-party tools…

You can send messages to Teams channels from PowerShell using webhook or Microsoft Graph API calls. Let’s see how to send and read messages in Microsoft Teams channels using PowerShell.…

In this article, we’ll look at how to uninstall software on a local or remote Windows computer using PowerShell. Quite often, the system administrator uses scripts to uninstall Windows applications.…

This guide shows how to install, configure, and maintain a terminal server farm based on the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) role on Windows Server. The article will help you to…

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) is widely used by developers, administrators, and common users to run different Linux distros (Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Kali Linux, Alpine), tools, and apps in Windows…

In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the VMware ESXi installation ISO image (6.7 or 7.0). The ESXi installation image supports (certified) the most popular server…

In the Windows 10/11 GUI, only the lightweight interface for configuring VPN connections is available, which does not allow you to configure some VPN settings. You can use both the…

SSH-server based on the OpenSSH package is part of the operating system in all modern versions of Windows. In this article, we’ll show you how to install and configure the…

The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere Client console means that when deleting snapshots (using the Delete…

Remote access to the command prompt (server console) via SSH is disabled by default on VMware ESXi hosts. So, when connecting to an ESXi host over SSH, you will get…