As a Windows System administrator, you likely appreciate the efficiency of using Windows PowerShell to automate system administration tasks in Windows Server. This guide will show you how to create NIC Teaming using PowerShell. Understanding NIC Teaming NIC Teaming, also referred to as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), is a feature in Windows Server that enables you ... Read more
Creating an Active Directory (AD) user in a specific Organizational Unit (OU) using PowerShell involves several steps. Before proceeding, ensure you have the appropriate permissions to create users in Active Directory and that the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell is installed and imported into your PowerShell session. Import the Active Directory Module First, open ... Read more
When you apply a group policy on a container or OU, it applies to all users or computers in that container. However, you can exclude single or multiple users or containers from the policy applied. This tutorial shows you how to exclude a single user from a group policy object. Exclude a user from group ... Read more
You can use the PowerShell add-content cmdlet to append data to a text file. Here is an example of how to use the add-content PowerShell cmdlet to append text to a file on Windows. We'll also explain the command-line options that you can use. Powershell add-content example Step 1. Open PowerShell with elevated privileges. Step 2. Execute ... Read more
This article shows how to configure Windows Time Service (NTP) on Windows Server 2016 to act as an NTP server for domain client computers. Configure Windows Time Service (NTP) A prerequisite to having the correct time on the Windows clients is the correct time on the Windows 2016 server. So the first step is to ... Read more
Sometimes, you may be required to shut down domain-joined client computers automatically, or you may be required to run a script at some specific time. Group policies and task scheduling can help you in such situations. This tutorial will help you learn how to schedule a task using group policies in the domain controller on ... Read more
This tutorial shows various methods for creating directories using PowerShell. To follow the guide, open a PowerShell console with administrative privileges. What is PowerShell? PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework. It streamlines and automates the administration of Windows, Linux, and ... Read more
The system date and time in Windows can be modified through PowerShell, a Windows scripting environment and command-line shell. The process requires administrative privileges and involves a simple command. Here are examples of how to accomplish this task. Steps to Set Date and Time in PowerShell Step 1: Obtain Administrative Access Ensure you are logged ... Read more
We have covered in one of our articles already how to share a folder and access it from another Windows system. In this guide, I will show you how to share a folder in Windows for access from a Linux machine. I will use Ubuntu Linux here, but the steps shown will work on other ... Read more
System image backups are used to restore an entire system. However, there is a workaround that you can use to extract individual files from a system image backup which is the subject of this article. Restore single file from Windows System Image Backup Step 1. Open the disk management application. Step 2. In the disk ... Read more