Free up PC Space by Automating Temporary File Cleanup
In this tutorial, we cover how to quickly and easily cleanup all the "junk" that accumulates on PCs by automating in PowerShell.
In this tutorial, we cover how to quickly and easily cleanup all the "junk" that accumulates on PCs by automating in PowerShell.
What exactly is TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) and how does it differ from other file transfer tools?
Here is how you can deploy MalwareBytes, a popular anti-malware tool, quickly and inexpensively on multiple machines at once with PowerShell.
This article explains how to use PowerShell to monitor REST APIs.
As you begin to depend on your PowerShell scripts for more important tasks, you'll discover that building tests for those scripts become necessary.
If you find yourself making changes on your Microsoft DNS servers using the DNS MMC snapin you're probably wasting a lot of time.
As we all try to do more with less with automation, we sometimes get to a point to where we've got a new problem. We're now running so many scripts and processes that, in the end, we're not sure what "done" looks like.
When writing PowerShell code and you need to search for text inside of a single string or an entire text file, where do you turn?
Handle.exe is a 3rd party tool that can help track down a process that is locking down a file you are trying access. Here is how.
Working with lots of files all strewn about in different folders can sometimes prove troublesome. This is where PowerShell can help.
Lean IT, in its essence, is all about doing well the IT tasks the organization needs to do, while not doing things that don't really need to be done.
A lot of people throw away a lot of otherwise fully operational electronics due to blown capacitors (caps). I've worked in IT for quite a few years and that doesn't even include my 5 years of time in the audio consumer electronics space. To put is simply, a capacitor is...
Michael O'Dwyer | | IT Insights
Whether your company has a single wireless network or multiple networks and access points, Wi-Fi interference issues are a common problem, frustrating users and IT pros alike and slowing down network traffic.
The internet is huge. So huge that humans have spent years trying to quantify the concept. As noted by Live Science, for example, a study published in Supercomputing Frontiers suggested that the internet had a storage capacity of 10^24 bytes, while tech company Cisco...
Michael O'Dwyer | | IT Insights
Any discussion on the methods used to debug Bluetooth will not involve the use of soldering irons or replacement of components at a hardware level. The reason for this is quite simple — a Bluetooth radio is either on or off, with chipsets and Bluetooth stacks (the...
When a Windows server is running as expected, no one notices. But as it begins running low on resources, a system administrator typically finds out quickly just how important that server is. Performance suffers and Windows performance counters can help. It's important...
Michael O'Dwyer | | IT Insights
If you require software licensing tips, don't expect your software vendors to be of any real help, given the prevalence of outsourced call centers by many of the world's global players. If you can understand the accent of your assigned contact, congratulations! You have...
Jacqueline Lee | | IT Insights
It's undeniable: the way IT fits into business operations is changing. Proving the value of information technology teams as business partners could be the difference between the outsourcing of services and outsourcing of, frankly, everyone.
On Aug. 18, Jeffrey Snover finally got his wish. It was a wish that we in the PowerShell community knew was eventually coming judging from his tongue-in-cheek responses when asked about it for many months. Windows PowerShell was renamed simply to PowerShell because...
Mark Underwood | | IT Insights
By now, most IT professionals have dipped their toes in the solid-state drive (SSD) vs. hard disk drive (HDD) waters, but may not have had time to sort out the different types of SSDs used in their machines.
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