In Active Directory, you have the ability to enable the Recycle bin option, not only from the Active Directory Admin Center but also from PowerShell. Let’s say that you have just setup a new domain or you have an existing one and when you use PowerShell to enable the Recycle Read more…
I had a request to check connectivity to a SQL server and to email the results, however I thought of doing something different. Have the application check the connectivity but create an Event ID and Event Log entry on Success and Failure and you can monitor that with any application Read more…
In PowerShell you have a few options to increase the values of certain settings, in this example we will be looking at MaxMemoryPerShellMB setting that needs to be increased. The default value of 150mb might be fine in a small environment but in a larger environment where you are running Read more…
If you are running PowerShell V7 like I am, when you launch it you will see a white box similar to the one below: In this article, we will be upgrading using the command line and below is the command: iex “& { $(irm https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1) } -UseMSI” Once you have Read more…
In my previous blog post on running Python scripts from PowerShell (Article Here), I was keen to test out the same thing but using PowerShell V7 instead of PowerShell V5.1 that comes with Windows 10. I used the same script as I did previously in PowerShell V7 and here is Read more…
In a previous article, we used Windows 10 which has PowerShell 5.1 to create a new email message. Here is the link to the article: https://everything-powershell.com/powershell-create-an-email-using-powershell/ In this article we will perform the same function but we will use PowerShell v7.0.3 instead. We will run with both options as per Read more…
In this article we are doing to perform two demonstrations for creating draft emails in Outlook from PowerShell. Option 1: Create an email draft however you need to open Outlook to see it.Option 2: Create an email draft but have the email open for you instead of opening Outlook. Here Read more…
If you are new to Windows 10, you may be wondering where to find the OS build information. Well, you can firstly head over to Settings -> System -> About and can see the information as below: Or you can use PowerShell and run a simple command to give you Read more…
I was recently asked how to get all Windows updates that are missing in Windows 10. There is a great script written by Grimthorr 5 years ago which is still working on the current version of Windows 10. To get the code, you can head over to his post on Read more…
Sometimes in Windows 10, you are working on Outlook and you need to close it for some reason and when you try and launch it again nothing happens. This is because there is already a process running in the background, the previous session you closed did not end properly or Read more…