MicrosoftHow to Find the Exact Last Boot Time of a Windows Server using PowerShell
Auditing Server Uptime When investigating a mysterious server crash or trying to verify if an...
MicrosoftHow to Find the Installation Path of a Windows Service using PowerShell
Hunting Down Rogue Services When auditing a Windows Server for security vulnerabilities, system administrators frequently...
MicrosoftHow to Use PowerShell to Safely Eject a USB Drive
The Dangers of Yanking the Drive Pulling a USB flash drive or an external hard...
MicrosoftHow to Force a Group Policy Update on Remote Computers using PowerShell
The Delay in Group Policy Propagation In a Windows Active Directory environment, Group Policy Objects...
MicrosoftHow to Restart a Remote Computer using PowerShell
Remote Management in Enterprise Environments When you are managing a cluster of Windows Servers or...
MicrosoftHow to Add a Computer to an Active Directory Domain using PowerShell
Automating Domain Joins When deploying a new fleet of Windows workstations or spinning up fresh...
MicrosoftHow to Export a List of All Installed Windows Updates using PowerShell
Auditing Windows Server Patches When an emergency zero-day vulnerability is announced, system administrators must rapidly...
MicrosoftHow to Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using PowerShell
Bringing Linux to Windows Historically, developers who needed to test code on both Windows and...
MicrosoftHow to Install the IIS Web Server Role using PowerShell
Automating Web Server Deployment Internet Information Services (IIS) is Microsoft’s robust, enterprise-grade web server, heavily...
MicrosoftHow to Disable IPv6 on Windows Server using PowerShell
The Trouble with IPv6 on Windows Server While IPv6 is the future of internet routing,...
MicrosoftHow to Restart a Windows Service Remotely using PowerShell
The Limitations of the Services GUI When a background process hangs on a Windows Server...
MicrosoftHow to Mount an ISO Image using the Mount-DiskImage PowerShell Cmdlet
Automating Software Installations In modern Windows environments, installing massive software suites (like Microsoft SQL Server,...
MicrosoftHow to Export a List of All Active DNS Zones using PowerShell
Managing Windows Server DNS In a large enterprise environment, the Windows Server DNS (Domain Name...
MicrosoftHow to View Hidden Files and Folders using PowerShell
The Limitation of the GUI In Windows, users and system administrators can easily hide files...
MicrosoftHow to Find All Expired Active Directory Passwords using PowerShell
Proactive Password Management In a standard Active Directory environment, users are prompted to change their...
MicrosoftHow to Rename a Windows PC Remotely Using the Rename-Computer PowerShell Cmdlet
The Challenge of Remote Administration When deploying new Windows workstations across a corporate network, IT...
MicrosoftHow to Configure Advanced Audit Policy Configuration using Windows Group Policy
The Need for Granular Auditing By default, Windows Server auditing is relatively simplistic. The legacy...