Adam Bertram
Adam Bertram is a 25+ year IT veteran and an experienced online business professional. He’s a successful blogger, consultant, 6x Microsoft MVP, trainer, published author and freelance writer for dozens of publications. For how-to tech tutorials, catch up with Adam at adamtheautomator.com, connect on LinkedIn or follow him on X at @adbertram.
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Understanding PowerShell Toolmaking
As we use PowerShell Toolmaking to automate more tasks, most of us eventually find ourselves reinventing the wheel. We write a script to do task X, another to do task Y, then task Z comes around. A few weeks go by and we begrudgingly write another script to do task X...
Using the PowerShell Test-NetConnection Cmdlet on Windows
Before the days of PowerShell Test-NetConnection, we had many different command-line tools we could choose from to troubleshoot various network connectivity issues. We had ping for testing ICMP echoes and replies; tracert to see where our packets might be getting...
How to Use Scheduled Tasks to Copy or Transfer Files
You shouldn't have to babysit all of the file copies; scheduled tasks is perfect for automating this job.
Automatically Encrypt File and Folders Using PowerShell
In today's dangerous cyber environment, it's more important than ever to protect your data. Bad guys are always on the lookout for an easy score. As a sysadmin, it's one of your many jobs to set up security controls and make sure your network is not an easy target.
How-To: PowerShell Monitoring Scripts for HTTP Status
How would you define a web server as being "up"? It doesn't just respond to a simple Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request (ping). Even though this is a great indicator of a web server's operating system being online — and it being connected to the...
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