Microsoft 365 licensing is full of hidden traps: mismatched SKUs, misunderstood entitlements, and cloud usage that quietly drives costs up, often without improving security or productivity. With an ...

Using Windows Management Instrumentation makes it easy to pull information about the drives on your system or remote systems. Here's how. Managing drives is a very common thing that a system ...

Microsoft has introduced SQL Server 2012 to the world and it's time for IT professionals to start to come to speed on what's new. Microsoft has introduced SQL Server 2012 to the world and it's time ...

If you have been using PowerShell for a while, or even just picked it up yesterday, you have no doubt used Where-Object and ForEach-Object at some point in your scripting experience. The beauty of ...

PowerShell is more than just scripting and automation. Given the right functions, you can also use it to solve numerical equations -- from the simple to the complex. Here's how. PowerShell is not just ...

Unfortunately, IT professionals have to deal with sensitive information all the time. That information could be in the form of passwords, proprietary company information or anything that you'd rather ...

As any system administrator knows, using a domain account as a service account is a great practice. Of course, making sure that the account is using the lowest level of privileges is just as important ...

I'm sure we have all been there before in our career as a Windows administrator: One day your Web site is handling requests through https and the next day no one can access the site. What could have ...

We all love our Active Directory domains. Being able to provide single sign-on authentication for users and computers is great. It's a secure solution that saves a ton of time -- cutting out the ...

What makes PowerShell such a powerful management tool is that it is based on objects and not text parsing. Once you have an object it is very easy to work with its properties and methods. Most of the ...

Native support for Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) isn't in PowerShell, but that doesn't mean it's not capable. By using a free community module called Posh-SSH, we can transfer files via SCP just as ...

One of the things that PowerShell doesn't have is a way to view local accounts on local and remote systems. Fortunately for us, we have a couple of options at our disposal that can get around this to ...