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How to send Emails from PowerShell

There are several reasons why you may want to programmatically send emails with Windows PowerShell. For example, you may want to automatically email users when their Active Directory passwords are about to expire, or when their AD account locks out. In order to send…

Paul Hill
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Windows

Import Active Directory Users from a CSV Spreadsheet with PowerShell

In this tutorial I want to show you how you can write a PowerShell script to automatically create Active Directory user accounts based on a CSV or Excel spreadsheet.

Paul Hill
8 min
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Gaming Servers

How to Host a DCS Server - Full Step-by-step Guide

Overview While we at Server Academy mostly create content based around administrating the Windows Server operating system, we also love to game! One of our favorite games is DCS World, a flight simula…

Paul Hill
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Windows

How to Assign a Static IP address on Windows Server 2016

Design is a funny word Overview This tutorial describes the steps to assign a static IP address on Windows Server 2016 through both the GUI and Windows PowerShell. Jump to a specific section: Method 1…

Paul Hill
2 min
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Windows

Central Management of Local Group Policy

Overview I received an email from a student who wanted to centrally manage their computers WITHOUT a Windows Domain. Their company was merged and the new IT department wanted to implement their own Ac…

Paul Hill
7 min
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