PowerShell

With the introduction of PowerShell Core and now PowerShell 7, the cross-platform capabilities of PowerShell have also brought new challenges. System administrators used to working on Windows systems that now operate cross-platform need to be able to handle permissions in similar ways.

Microsoft has announced the release of version 5.0 of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module. The latest release brings major performance improvements and new filtering capabilities for the Get-CsOnlineUser cmdlet. The Get-CsOnlineUser cmdlet is a PowerShell command that is used in Microsoft Teams to retrieve information about user accounts. It fetches information about the user name,…

With Windows Server 2012 and Win8 comes a new version of the SMB protocol. Learn to disable SMB 1.0 and configure SMB encryption in this easy Ask an Admin.

This is series of articles about managing Active Directory with PowerShell. This one particularly focuses on using the LDAP moniker.

PowerShell is an essential tool for IT admins, and it makes it easy to audit Active Directory user accounts with the Get-AdUser command. In this guide, we’re going to detail how to get started with the popular Active Directory cdmdlet.  Introduction to the Get-AdUser PowerShell cmdlet The Get-AdUser cmdlet is one of the most popular Active…

In this article, I’ll show you how to export Active Directory users to a CSV file using PowerShell and Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC). Using PowerShell is recommended as IT Pros can use it to extract task-specific information about a subset or all of their users from Active Directory. This can be really helpful…

Last week, Microsoft confirmed a new issue that caused application shortcuts to disappear from the Taskbar and Start Menu on Windows PCs. Microsoft has recently released a PowerShell script that helps IT admins to restore some deleted Windows application shortcuts. On January 13, several IT admins reported on Reddit and Twitter that a buggy attack…

When working in a Microsoft 365 environment, IT pros can use Conditional Access policies to control access to their tenant. In this article, we’ll detail how to create Conditional Access policies using PowerShell instead of the graphical user interface, and why using PowerShell to do that can help you save some time Conditional Access policies…

Microsoft has announced the release of PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0-preview01. The latest version brings error-handling improvements, a new schema, argument value transformation support, a new way to bypass the output handler, and more. PowerShell Crescendo is a popular platform that helps to create PowerShell cmdlets for command line applications. It improves the original command-line experience with…

PowerShell has been the default configuration tool for Windows since it’s release in 2006, but since being open-sourced in 2016, administrators can use it for Linux and macOS as well. However, there are some significant differences in how to manage a Windows operating system over a Linux operating system.