Redmond Magazine

How To Create Reports in PowerShell

In the first of a new column featuring in-depth advice on Windows Servers, Brien Posey breaks down how you can create custom information dumps in PowerShell. Welcome to my new Windows Server How To ...
MCPmag

Creating Shares in Windows Using the SmbShare Module in PowerShell

Just recently, Microsoft has made it a lot easier to create new shares by avoiding cumbersome UI navigation and going straight through PowerShell. Working with Windows shares, you can easily create a ...
MCPmag

Creating Volume Shadow Copies in PowerShell

Ever deleted a file or folder on a file server and didn't mean to? Yea, me neither. But if you did, what would you do about it? Maybe you'd break out the backup tape or perhaps perform the restore ...
Ars Technica

Exchange 2013 - folder hierarchy permissions via Powershell

I am trying to do a simple thing, but which seems to be not quite so simple: I want to assign permissions to a whole mailbox for one or more users. The mailbox accounts have pretty complex folder ...
Redmond Magazine

Creating Azure SQL Databases with PowerShell and Azure Resource Manager Templates

There are lots of ways to create MSSQL databases via PowerShell. We could invoke a T-SQL query using the CREATE DATABASE term, we could write some code to use the [Create() method with SMO] or, if ...
Windows Central

How to create scheduled tasks with PowerShell on Windows 10

On Windows 10, the Task Scheduler is a useful tool that has been around for many years, and it provides a friendly graphical interface to create automated routines. When you use this tool, you can ...