The DNS servers and suffixes configured for VPN connections are used in Windows 10 to resolve names using DNS in the Force Tunneling mode (“Use default gateway on remote network”…

In order to manage access to files or folders in Windows, a special ACL (Access Control List) is assigned to an NTFS file system object (a file or a folder).…

If you need to run a PowerShell script with the administrator privileges, you can check if the current powershell.exe process has the elevated permissions right in your PS code.

You can use the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to analyze mail flow, message forensics and to get different information about messages sent or received by a specific…

Any PowerShell script can be transformed to a real Windows service that runs in the background and starts automatically during your server boot. You can create a Windows service using…

One of the main metric, which allows to estimate the performance of the existing or designed storage system is IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). In simple terms, IOPS is the…

When managing user access permissions to various resources in an Active Directory domain, an administrator may have to create dynamic AD user groups. Dynamic groups make it easier for an…

You can use PowerShell to generate QR codes to share with your friends or colleagues. Let’s consider an example of using QRCodeGenerator PowerShell module to generate a? QR code image…

Historically, the WindowsUpdate.log plain text file has been used to analyze the operation of the Windows Update agent and service. However, the Windows Update logs in Windows 10 (Windows Server…

Administrators often have to store passwords in automation scenario directly in the body of PowerShell scripts. As you know, it is extremely insecure when used in a productive environment, since…