It's not a new problem: An end user logs in to a Windows server using Remote Desktop Protocol and then forgets to log off. When a session remains open, it continues to consume resources on the server ...

Managing Microsoft IIS Web servers remotely using the graphical tool is fairly simple to enable if you're sitting at the Web server. But if you're like me and host many servers in different locations ...

PowerShell is a powerful command-line environment that can be used to manage and maintain Windows. While it is easy to think of PowerShell as a local management tool, it can also be used to manage ...

Here's how to use PowerShell to manage Hyper-V virtual machines without having to jump through the usual hoops. Microsoft has long given administrators the ability to use PowerShell to manage remote ...

The remote access solution everyone loves to hate actually became the best fit ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Joe Cassavaugh shares his journey from ...

Windows PowerShell has long been an IT administrator’s best friend — but only if you know how to use it properly. Created by Microsoft nearly two decades ago, this object-oriented automation engine ...

I have a need to establish a remote powershell (v2) quickly to allow a .NET app on one server to send commands to an exchange server for account creations and modifications. Unfortunately, this ...

The fourth part of the CIM cmdlets blog series focuses on creating a duplicate CIM session on a different PowerShell unit. The new CIM cmdlets in PowerShell 3.0 rely on a remoting feature called a CIM ...