In this post, I’ll show you how to track user account lockout events on Active Directory domain controllers, determine from which computer and program the…
CoreyNovember 11, 2020
This post gives the basics on how to manage settings and rules of built-in Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security using PowerShell. We'll review how…
CoreyNovember 4, 2020
I saw a strange message “An internal error has occurred” when trying to connect from Windows 10 to a recently deployed RDSH server running Windows…
CoreyNovember 2, 2020
All Windows admins know that after a computer or a user is added to an Active Directory security group, new permissions to access domain resources…
CoreyOctober 28, 2020
From time to time we notice that some connected network printers go offline, stop printing and print jobs begin to queue on the print servers…
CoreyOctober 26, 2020
You can manage Windows services not only from the services.msc snap-in or sc.exe command line tool, but also using PowerShell. In this post we’ll consider…
CoreyOctober 21, 2020
In this post we‘ll show you how to create a software mirror (RAID1) from two GPT disks with Windows 10 / Server 2016 / Server…
CoreyOctober 19, 2020
In Windows Server 2012R2/2016/2019, you can use the graphical Server Manager console to install and remove server roles and features. However, in most cases you…
CoreyOctober 14, 2020
If you are against of installing Windows updates automatically and disable Windows Update service (wuauserv) completely, then you have to download and install the latest…
CoreyOctober 12, 2020
Quite a number of applications on Windows Server and Windows 10 require .NET Framework 3.5 (in spite of .NET Framework 4.6 is installed by default). For…
CoreyOctober 7, 2020
My colleagues work computer running Windows 10 began to lose Internet access from time to time (once in 2-3 days with the Limited connection status in the…
CoreyOctober 5, 2020
You can use the Get-ADDomainController PowerShell cmdlet to get information about the domain controllers in Active Directory. This cmdlet is a part of PowerShell Active Directory module and requires…
CoreySeptember 30, 2020
Windows Hyper-V Server is a free hypervisor platform by Microsoft to run virtual machines. In this post we’ll look at how to install and configure the…
CoreySeptember 28, 2020
The Active Directory Attribute Editor is a built-in graphical tool to manage the properties of AD objects (users, computers, groups). It is the Attribute Editor…
CoreySeptember 23, 2020
A very common problem is when Outlook starts asking for the user credentials, even if the correct password is specified. It looks like this: after…
CoreySeptember 21, 2020
Most administrators use the PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) to build their PowerShell scripts. But by now Microsoft has almost stopped developing PowerShell ISE and recommends using…
CoreySeptember 16, 2020
A user reported a missing Mail app icon in the Control Panel on a computer running Windows 10 1903. Office 365 is installed on the computer, and…
CoreySeptember 14, 2020
A Windows administrator can use the good old Dnscmd cli tool or DNSServer module for PowerShell to manage DNS zones and records. In this post we’ll cover the basic…
CoreySeptember 9, 2020
The first thing an administrator can come across when deploying Office 2019 in an enterprise environment is that now you cannot download an Office 2019 installation ISO…
CoreySeptember 7, 2020
In this post we’ll consider how to find domain controllers with FSMO roles in Active Directory, how to transfer one or more FSMO roles to…
CoreySeptember 2, 2020
In one of the previous posts we showed how to use the Set-ADComputer cmdlet in a GPO logon script to save the current logged in user info to the…
CoreyAugust 31, 2020
The Disk Cleanup tool allows the administrator to quickly clean up the Windows Server system drive by deleting unnecessary and temporary files, including cleaning the WinSxS directory from files…
CoreyAugust 26, 2020
The Set-ADComputer cmdlet allows you to change the attributes of a computer account object in Active Directory. In this post, we’ll show how to add current logged-in…
CoreyAugust 24, 2020
I came across an interesting issue when trying to install Linux CentOS on a virtual machine running on a Hyper-V server (the type of the…
CoreyAugust 19, 2020
In this post we'll review some ways to block access to the specific websites, domain names, URLs or IP addresses in Windows without using third-party…
CoreyAugust 17, 2020
I received several emails from readers asking me to help solve the problem of displaying computers in a network environment on the latest Windows 10 builds. Indeed,…
CoreyAugust 12, 2020
Once I saw that one of my test virtual machines was running out of free space on system drive C:. I increased the disk size…
CoreyAugust 10, 2020
The Active Directory for Windows PowerShell module is one of the main tools to administer domain, manage objects in Active Directory and get different information about AD…
CoreyAugust 5, 2020
You can use the SFC (System File Checker) and DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) commands to check and repair the integrity of system files and components of your…
CoreyAugust 3, 2020
