It's not always the best idea to create Active Directory users from scratch. Chances are, your company has a standard "template" of attributes that are set for every domain user. If so, why are you ...

Collaboration tools are vital in a hybrid work world, but administering them can be time-consuming. Here’s a simple solution for Teams. Microsoft Teams is a popular collaboration tool, relied upon by ...

Microsoft’s mighty Windows administration framework gets even better with the help of these resources. Most are free, and the three for-fee tools are well worth the cost. Ah, PowerShell. A simple blue ...

For IT administrators, managing user profiles is a routine but critical responsibility, particularly in environments like Remote Desktop Services (RDS). Stale or corrupted profiles can consume disk ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...