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Be very cautious while trying these steps Yes, this is a tool worthy of the name. PowerShell can easily cause massive configuration changes, positive or negative: so protect yourself and establish a test environment for your learning experiences. Also consider using the "-confirm" parameter to test configurations before execution for certain commands. Number 1: Report all of the USB devices installed PowerShell is Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) aware. From PowerShell, you can make a WMI call to retrieve the USB devices installed in a local or remote system: gwmi Win32_USBControllerDevice -computername SERVER1 |fl Antecedent,Dependent This will apply a filter to bring back the antecedent and dependent fields from the SERVER1 computer. Should you want the full export, you can omit the pipe and filter statement to have a comprehensive export of the USB devices on a system. I have found this useful to maintain a report for servers that have a USB license devi...

PowerShell scripting is an entirely new language for server admins who are comfortable in a graphical user interface. You don't have to go it alone. Start by working with an experienced admin's scripts. Generic-purpose scripts will help you adapt the structure and language for your own tasks. Study examples of the script in use. While learning about PowerShell scripting from your peers, familiarize yourself with these universal tips for server administration from the PowerShell interface. Learn how to search for all available commands and refine your list to the ones that you need for a given task. Think about ease of maintenance and error handling when you write scripts. And enjoy the satisfaction when you figure out a script that accomplishes the task at hand in half as many steps as your first attempt. Until recently, GUI was the name of the game for Exchange Server admins. PowerShell cmdlets and scripts are the future of Exchange management, and important change...

Difference between  Exchange 2013 on-premises,  Office 365 and Windows Azure Powershell  The Exchange Online is able to manage the users and permission of Exchange service.  The Office 365 (Windows Azure AD) is to manage the whole Office 365 service. Windows Azure can use to manage users, domain and other things which will  affect  the  whole  Office  365  service. It  is  not  able  to  be  used  to  manage  Exchange  service,  Lync  service  and SharePoint service.  To manage Exchange service, you need to use Exchange Online PowerShell to perform the activity.