A password expiration policy can be set up in the Active Directory domain. When a user’s password expires, it is forced to be changed. When a user’s password in Active Directory expires, what happens? The user account is not blocked,… Continue Reading
Using the Local Users and Groups (lusrmgr.msc) graphic snap-in, the administrator can change the passwords of local users on the machine. The Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) GUI panel is primarily used to update the password of an AD… Continue Reading
With PowerShell, you can redirect the output of any command to a text file. This is useful to save the results returned by a PowerShell command or script. The PowerShell Out-File cmdlet is used to redirect output to a plain… Continue Reading
The logical operators If Else and Else are used to check conditions. The If statement is designed to check a condition and perform a specific action associated with that condition. If we met the specified condition, then one action is… Continue Reading
Services in Windows are one of the most important parts of the operating system. Previously, to get the status of a service on Windows, you had to use the services.msc graphical snap-in or the sc.exe command-line tool (for example, sc.exe… Continue Reading
One of the main string operations in PowerShell is concatenation. It is the operation of joining multiple strings into one. Most often, the string concatenation operation is performed using the “+” operator. Additionally, PowerShell has several other ways to concatenate… Continue Reading
In this article, we’ll take a look at how to use native PowerShell cmdlets to download a file via HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP protocol. You can use PowerShell cmdlets as a native alternative of the wget and curl tool on… Continue Reading
The grep command is widely used on Linux to parse files and shell output. By Using grep you can easily find and filter the output returned by the previous command in the pipeline. In this article, we’ll take a look… Continue Reading
You can comment out a code in a PowerShell script for documentation or debugging purposes, just like in any other programming language. There are two comment categories in PowerShell. Line comments and Block comments. In PowerShell v.1, only single-line comments… Continue Reading
In this article, we will take a look at constructions of the loop through all files and folders on a disk or a specific directory ( using the For-each and Get-Childtem statements). You can widely use them in your… Continue Reading