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Windows PowerShell 2.0 made a powerful new technology available for system administrators: remoting. Remoting has increased in importance in each PowerShell iteration since then, and future Microsoft products will rely...

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a subsystem of PowerShell that gives admins access to powerful system monitoring tools. Though this system has been designed to allow for fast, efficient system...

Office 365 PowerShell is a powerful tool that lets you manage your Office 365 settings straight from the command line. After connecting Office 365 PowerShell to your Office 365 organization,...

Arrays are a fundamental feature of PowerShell. Arrays make it possible to ingest, manipulate and output true data structures (and not just raw strings). This capability makes PowerShell different and...

Using PowerShell to manage Office 365 can make your work faster, more efficient, and easier. PowerShell gives you access to information about your Office 365 environment that you can’t access...

Last time, we explored how a hypothetical insider could use the Windows Management Interface (WMI) and its eventing system to surveil other employees. No, I’m not the first person to...

Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool for automating tasks and simplifying configuration and can be used to automate almost any task in the Windows ecosystem, including active directory and exchange....

Privilege escalation is when an attacker is able to exploit the current rights of an account to gain additional, unexpected access. While this can be caused by zero-day vulnerabilities, state-level...

Back in the day, booting the then-cutting-edge IBM 8086 from the floppy brought you to a green text screen with a cursor blinking at the familiar C:\> prompt. Hacking boot.ini...

This article is a text version of a lesson from our PowerShell and Active Directory Essentials video course (use code ‘blog’ for free access). The course has proven to be...