PowerShell has a lot of features to manage processes on a local or a remote computer. Using PowerShell, you can get a list of running processes, suspend a hung-up process,…

You can use RDS Drain Mode to maintain terminal hosts in a Remote Desktop Services farm. If you enable Drain Mode for your RDS server, you can prevent the server…

Managed Service Account (MSA) is a special type of Active Directory account that can be used to securely run services, applications, and scheduled tasks. The basic idea is that the…

The Just Enough Administration (JEA) feature is available starting from PowerShell version 5.0 and allows you to delegate administrative privileges to anything you can manage with PowerShell. The main purpose…

You can use PowerShell’s features to create ZIP archives and extract them. In PowerShell 5.0 (this PowerShell version is installed by default on Windows 10), a separate module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive is…

The Set-ADUser cmdlet allows to modify user properties (attributes) in Active Directory using PowerShell. Traditionally, a graphic MMC snap-in dsa.msc (Active Directory Users and Computers, ADUC) is used to edit…

An Exchange administrator can move user mailboxes between databases on the same server or between remote mailbox servers. In this article we’ll show how to move mailboxes in Exchange Server…

In this article we’ll show how to read and write data from Excel worksheets directly from PowerShell scripts. You can use Excel along with PowerShell to inventory and generate various…

Most users and administrators use the taskschd.msc graphical interface console to create and manage scheduled tasks on Windows. However, in various scripts and automated flows, it is much more convenient…

To deploy new virtual machines in VMWare, VM templates are typically used. A VMWare VM template is a reference virtual machine copy with the configured settings, installed software and security…