Unfortunately, IT professionals have to deal with sensitive information all the time. That information could be in the form of passwords, proprietary company information or anything that you'd rather ...

Controlled Folder Access is a security feature included in Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard, a component of Microsoft Defender Antivirus. Its main purpose is to thwart ransomware attacks by preventing ...

According to Jason Wingate, the CEO of marketing firm Emerald Ocean Ltd. and a veteran of enterprise IT implementations, managing file system ACLs and permissions properly isn’t just about keeping ...

Windows environment variables give system administrators access to a plethora of information about the Windows operating system. Separated into system and user-level scopes, default environment ...

Learning about the PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command is a good introduction to the time-savings that Powershell scripting can bring to server admins. The PowerShell Get-WindowsFeature command—or, ...

While many know that the Get-Process command in PowerShell can provide basic process information, it can also display specific details with some minor tweaks. If you have been using Windows PowerShell ...

How to install PowerShell Core on Windows, Linux, and macOS Your email has been sent PowerShell Core is available to Windows clients, as well as macOS and Linux ...

This post will show you how to disable the PowerShell application using the Security Policy and the Local Group Policy Editor in Windows 11 or Windows 10. Windows 11/10 comes with a pre-installed ...

Most of us have dealt with hardware that stays in service well past its planned end-of-life date or that, for reasons of budget and bureaucracy, doesn’t even make it into service until well into its ...

Windows PowerShell is a utility that lets you automate Windows features including activation of the operating system. You must activate Windows with a valid license before all Windows features are ...

What I'm trying to do is query all of our servers to see if FTP is an installed service. If it is, I want to have it report into a text file to give me the state of the service and its start mode, as ...