Using PowerShell for System Administration and Automation Tasks

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…

A RAM disk is a virtual disk created in a free area of the memory (RAM) that it sees by the OS as a separate physical disk. Due to the…

In this article we’ll look on the disk, partition and volume management from PowerShell console. You can perform from PowerShell all the operations of managing local disks and partitions, that…

Although PowerShell is a console language, sometimes it is necessary to notify a user from a PS script about a particular event or prompt them to do something. For example,…

In the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (and newer), special PowerShell cmdlets appeared: New-MailboxImportRequest and New-MailboxExportRequest, that allow you to import or export the contents of the Exchange mailbox from / to…

In some cases an administrator needs to configure multiple IP addresses one a single network interface (NIC) in Windows. An example of such situations can be the need to run…

When the system warns you that free space on your local drive is running out, the first thing that the administrator does is trying to find all large files that…

In the previous article, we looked at the old-school VBS scripts that can be used to manage printers and print operations in all Windows versions, starting from Windows XP. Today…