Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

You can use PowerShell to calculate the exact size of a specific folder in Windows (recursively, including all subfolders). This way you can quickly find out the size of the…

Windows Credential Manager allows you to securely store credentials (usernames and passwords) used to access network resources, websites, and apps. You can use the credentials stored in Credential Manager to…

How to manually kill a Windows service process that is stacked at “Stopping” or “Starting” state? Most Windows administrators have faced a problem when they try to start/stop/restart a service,…

For your Windows device to display the correct time, the time zone set on the device must match the geographical location of your computer. This article explains how to set…

My task is to create multiple internal IP subnets and configure routing between them on my standalone Hyper-V stand. By default, Hyper-V doesn’t route traffic between networks on virtual switches.…

Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications from the Microsoft Store require you to install them online. However, when you actually install a UWP application, the Microsoft Store client downloads and installs…

In this article, I tried to describe basic cmd and PowerShell commands used to configure and manage Windows Server Core. I think this guide will be useful both for beginners…

Many administrators usually use the netstat console tool or graphic TCPView to display information about active TCP/IP connections and open TCP ports in Windows. Instead of netstat, you can use…

Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…

Windows Defender Antivirus is Microsoft’s free built-in antivirus that comes installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and 2019 (since Windows 10 2004 the name Microsoft Defender is used). In…