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In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to get started with the Chocolatey package manager for Windows.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to use the file resource and manage permissions on files and folders.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith looks at the Chocolatey package manager for Windows, what it does, and how it can simplify software deployment on servers and end-user devices.

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith uses a PowerShell script to populate Active Directory with test user accounts.

Microsoft announced the general availability of PowerShell Core 6.0 on January 10th. In this Ask the Admin, we will look at the roadmap for PowerShell and some of the dramatic changes since Microsoft announced that PowerShell will be open source.

Office 365 Groups (and Teams) can quickly become obsolete, but administrators need some help to find the underused groups. PowerShell comes to the rescue through a mixture of checks against the group mailbox, Office 365 audit log, and Teams compliance records. A nice HTML report is the result – and isn’t that always welcome.

We can use PowerShell for SPO by using any of the development environments provided by Microsoft. If you ask my recommendation about what tool to use, I would say Windows PowerShell ISE or Visual Studio Code. Finally, there are also third-party tools to run PowerShell scripts and modules for SPO.

The Teams PowerShell module is flawed, but that does not mean that you cannot do work with it. Here’s a primer of the most important cmdlets, together with a link to a rather interesting approach to finding out what Office 365 Groups are team-enabled.

In this three-part series, Russell Smith discusses how he deployed an Active Directory forest with 2 domain controllers and a member server running certificate services in Microsoft Azure.

PowerShell for SPO is a tool not only for platform administration and configuration tasks but also for doing many other common activities.