Most IT professionals have some experience with Active Directory, whether they use it to create new users, reset passwords or generate child domains. Tools like Active Directory Users and Computers ...

When you struggle to remember your work password -- particularly after a long vacation -- you can accidentally trigger a security policy that freezes you out of your laptop until someone from IT can ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes an Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell. This new feature enables you to perform Active Directory administrative tasks by using Windows PowerShell. Let’s take ...

More of you are getting used to Windows PowerShell and realizing its advantages. With that in mind, this month's column is going to be a long one. This is a lightning overview of Windows PowerShell ...

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 ...

This PowerShell tutorial opens with an introduction to PowerShell scripting basics. It guides you through various topics, starting with launching PowerShell and preparing to run PowerShell scripts.

PowerShell seems to have the ability to automate just about anything. Active Directory (AD) is no different. By downloading a freely available PowerShell module, an IT admin can manage every facet of ...