Managing permissions on files and folders can be an enormous time drain for IT professionals. Users have home folders, departments have proprietary folders, projects have unique folders — the list ...

Windows PowerShell has long been an IT administrator’s best friend — but only if you know how to use it properly. Created by Microsoft nearly two decades ago, this object-oriented automation engine ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Figure 1. Using builtin -WhatIf functionality to prevent outages. Good thing I just didn't let it run without some training wheels. As you can see, instead of just ...

Windows PowerShell can be dangerously easy to use. If you aren't careful you can easily delete thousands of files, stop a critical service or disable the CEO's account. In some circles, those events ...

Using PowerShell for ACL management ensures consistency across your infrastructure, preventing errors created by manual input. According to Jason Wingate, the CEO of marketing firm Emerald Ocean Ltd.