Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) is a popular service that many organizations use for identity management today. If you're just managing a few employees with user accounts, you could get by with the ...

Creating local user accounts via the UI is pretty straightforward. You open up computer management and then go to the Users folder and can then just right click and create a new user. You can also go ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced two new Azure Active Directory PowerShell module capabilities available at the preview testing stage. The first new capability is the addition of "multifactor authentication" ...

PowerShell management does not have to be painful with PowerGUI in your IT toolbox Since its introduction I have come across two very different reactions for PowerShell. Some love it since to them it ...

Microsoft last week released a community technology preview (CTP) version of Windows Management Framework 3.0. The CTP requires having Common Language Runtime 4.0 in ...

You had to see this one coming. After all, I wrote a book about it. However, I’m still amazed at the number of people that don’t know what PowerShell is. So, here is my pitch, hopefully people take ...

I have tried explaining each of these features in brief and how it will help PowerShell users. However, make sure to read in more detail at the Microsoft official page. ConciseView is a ...

Microsoft developed Windows PowerShell for task automation and configuration management. It is based on .NET framework; while it includes a command-line shell and a scripting language. It does not ...