You can use PowerShell to generate QR codes to share with your friends or colleagues. Let’s consider an example of using QRCodeGenerator PowerShell module to generate a …
In this article we’ll cover the Chrome Group Policy administrative templates (admx), provided by Google, that allow you to centrally manage browser settings in an…
You can use the official OpenSSH package for Windows to easily organize a secure file transfer between the client and Windows server using the SFTP (Secure FTP)…
In this article, we will show how to selectively disable UAC for a specific application without disabling User Account Control service completely. Consider several ways…
Historically, the WindowsUpdate.log plain text file has been used to analyze the operation of the Windows Update agent and service. However, the Windows Update logs in Windows…
NTLM (NT LAN Manager) has been used as the basic Microsoft authentication protocol for quite a long time: since Windows NT. Although Microsoft introduced a more…
Starting from Windows 10 1809, Microsoft has changed the way to install the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) package in desktop OSs. Previously, after each…
When installing NET Framework 4.7.2 using online and offline installers on Windows Server 2012 R2, I came across the error: 0x80092004 — Cannot find object or property. At…
In this article, we’ll consider the installation, configuration, and activation of Remote Desktop Licensing role on Windows Server 2019/2016, as well as the installation and activation of…
To centrally manage the settings of Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel. Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, etc.) in a ActiveDirectory domain using Group Policies, there are special Office…
After installing the Windows security updates that issued after May 2018, you may face the CredSSP encryption oracle remediation error during RDP connection to the remote Windows…
KMS infrastructure consists of a KMS server that is activated by Microsoft (this operation is performed once online or by phone) and KMS clients, which send their activation…
In this article we’ll consider how to delegate administrative privileges in the Active Directory domain. Delegation allows you to provide some AD management tasks to…
Outlook rules allow the users to create different conditions to process the incoming email messages. You can move emails from specific senders that meet certain…
Test-NetConnection – a ready-to-use cmdlet to check network connection has appeared in PowerShell 4.0 (Windows 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 and newer). You can use this cmdlet…
In this article we’ll consider how to change (or reset) a users’ Active Directory passwords using the PowerShell cmdlet Set-ADAccountPassword. Most administrators usually change (reset) AD…
Let’s consider how to deploy the same desktop background image (wallpaper) on all Windows workstations in the Active Directory domain using Group Policies. As a…
Administrators often have to store passwords in automation scenario directly in the body of PowerShell scripts. As you know, it is extremely insecure when used…
You can use the PowerShell cmdlet Get-ADComputer to get various information about computer account objects (servers and workstations) from Active Directory domain. This is one of the…
Windows Firewall allows to restrict inbound/outbound network traffic for a certain application, protocol or a TCP/IP port. This is an easy way to restrict network…
In this article, we’ll consider how to add (inject) drivers into the ESXi 6.7 installation ISO image. Despite VMWare ESXi image is certified (supported) for…
Let’s look on how to centrally deploy an SSL certificate on domain computers and add it to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities using Group Policy. After the certificate is deployed,…
In this article we’ll look at the disk, partition and volume management from PowerShell console. You can perform from PowerShell all the operations of managing…
All Windows versions has a built-in feature for automatically updating root certificates from the Microsoft websites. As part of the Microsoft Trusted Root Certificate Program, MSFT…
The warning ‘Virtual Machine disks consolidation is needed’ in the Summary tab of a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere console means that when deleting…
If you have installed Windows Server 2019 / Windows Server 2016 Standard Evaluation or Datacenter Evaluation edition to try the new features of the Microsoft server platform (you…
In Windows environment, each domain and local user, group and other security objects are assigned a unique identifier — Security Identifier or SID. It is an SID, but…
In this article we’ll look at how to configure RBL filters on Exchange 2016 and 2013. Let’s remember what RBL is. RBL(Realtime Blackhole List) is a service that stores…
Despite Microsoft has been porting its RDP client to different platforms (iOS, macOS, Android, there is also a separate UWP remote desktop app for Windows…
Resetting Windows Update Agent Settings In this article we’ll show how to fix common Windows Update errors by resetting Windows Update components configuration. As a…
If several Wi-Fi networks are available, Windows 10 automatically selects a wireless network with the strongest signal (no matter what the speed of this connection…
In this article, we’ll look at how to manage local administrator passwords on a domain joined computers using the official Microsoft tool – LAPS (Local Administrator Password…
The Windows 7 RTM distribution doesn’t support USB 3.0 out-of-the-box, and you can encounter some problems with the installation of Windows 7 on a computer/laptop…
In the Exchange Server 2010 SP1 (and newer), special PowerShell cmdlets appeared: New-MailboxImportRequest and New-MailboxExportRequest that allow you to import or export the contents of the Exchange mailbox…
An Exchange server allows an administrator to search user mailboxes in the databases and delete certain emails (or other items) from the mailboxes. For example,…
Recently Microsoft has added a standard PowerShell module to manage Windows local users and groups called Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts. Earlier you had to manually download and import this…
After updating Windows 10 computer on my computer from 1803 to 1809 (October Update), the installed RSAT tools (Remote Server Administration Tools) disappeared (this always…
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