While blocking IP ranges works perfectly, blocking a website or domain is tricky. That’s because multiple IPs can be associated with the domain, and while you can prevent them, the DNS resolver can ...

PowerShell offers extensive commands for managing apps on Windows, such as Get-AppxPackage, which can get a list of app packages that are installed in a user profile or for all users. However, you ...

A PowerShell script using WBAdmin can create full system backups of Windows 11, offering a simple, scriptable alternative for advanced users. Over the last couple of years, I have written a few blog ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Sometimes it’s easiest to learn something new simply by using it, and to my mind PowerShell is no exception. Often we discover new capabilities and features in looking at what tasks other people are ...

Secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) is a safe way to transfer files between hosts over the internet. While PowerShell does not offer built-in support for SFTP, you can add this functionality using ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

PowerShell can be a powerful management tool for IT pros if they know how to use it. In a virtual desktop environment, admins can use Windows PowerShell commands much the same as they would for ...

The GUI wizard offered by Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter can easily perform conversions, but the tool also provides the necessary PowerShell cmdlets to perform VMDK to VHDX conversions from the ...