Learn the basics of automation in Windows PowerShell for just $19.99 with this certification bundle. Windows administration can be a thankless, tedious task, especially in big organizations. That’s ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Speed up Active Directory tasks with these 10 PowerShell scripts, such as setting passwords remotely and creating an audit report. Save Time — Boost efficiency by automating repetitive and mundane ...

From checking systems to see if security patches are installed to monitoring Windows Server Backup attempts, PowerShell scripts can make tedious IT administrative tasks quick and easy. I’ve written a ...

There are various ways to create a new user account in Windows, one of them is by using a PowerShell command. In this post, we will discuss how you can create a local user account using PowerShell in ...

One of the features of PowerShell that left many people wondering why it wasn't included earlier was local account management. Every Windows system has local accounts and being able to add, remove and ...

Using Azure's "virtual machine agent," you can reset the local administrator password without even hitting the Windows OS itself. Here's how. When a Windows server is located on-premises and you ...

I'm kind of a newb at this, so please be gentle if my code isn't optimal. I worked at this script most of the day yesterday, expanding functionality and thinking of instances that could mess it up. By ...