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Thomas Joos

Thomas Joos is a freelance IT consultant and has been working in IT since 1992. He has published more than 90 practical reference books and writes for numerous IT publications such as c’t, PC Magazin, PC Welt, IT Administrator, Computerwoche and Heise Security.

November 6, 2024 - 10 min read

10 tips: AD administration with the PowerShell Active Directory module

If you manage Active Directory frequently – creating users, groups, troubleshooting, or maintaining...

April 20, 2022 - 6 min read

Strategies to find and fix errors in Active Directory

Active Directory can be managed excellently with PowerShell. Not only the creation of users and the...

March 4, 2022 - 9 min read

Easy ways how to query Active Directory with PowerShell

PowerShell is a powerful environment when it comes to querying information in Windows. PowerShell...

December 10, 2021 - 9 min read

Adding Active Directory users, groups and computers with PowerShell

In PowerShell, it is relatively easy to create user accounts and groups, add users to groups or...

November 11, 2020 - 8 min read

Display, retrieve, and terminate Windows processes with PowerShell

Monitoring and managing the running processes on a computer is a routine task for administrators....

October 7, 2020 - 7 min read

Hybrid configuration of SharePoint and Microsoft/Office 365

SharePoint Online includes many features that are not available in local SharePoint environments....

March 16, 2020 - 16 min read

12 tips for managing Hyper-V with PowerShell and Windows Admin Center

The virtualization technology Microsoft Hyper-V can be managed with different tools. Microsoft...

August 15, 2019 - 14 min read

Using PowerShell Scripts for Automation

In the first part of the article series, “Understanding Windows PowerShell“, we already discussed...

July 8, 2019 - 13 min read

Understanding PowerShell

PowerShell has become a fundamental tool for Microsoft environments. With PowerShell, commands can...