In August 2020, Microsoft released an update to fix a critical Windows Server vulnerability in Active Directory — CVE-2020-1472 (more known as Zerologon) . This update was successfully…
CoreyJuly 12, 2021
Using Group Policies, you can automatically copy specific files or folders to all domain computers. You can place files to the Desktop, a user profile folder…
CoreyJune 30, 2021
Using local accounts (including the local administrator) to access another computer over network in Active Directory environments is not recommended on a number of reasons.…
CoreyJune 28, 2021
You can use file system object access event auditing to identify a specific user who created, deleted, or modified a specific file. In this post,…
CoreyJune 23, 2021
In this post we’ll show how to find out when a password of an Active Directory user account expires using PowerShell, how to set a…
CoreyJune 2, 2021
One of the main tools to configure user and system settings in Windows is the Group Policy Objects (GPO). Local (these settings are configured locally on…
CoreyMay 24, 2021
User cannot logon to the computer due to the GPSVC (Group Policy Client service) connection error on one of the computers running Windows 10. When…
CoreyMay 17, 2021
By default, only members of the Domain Admins group have the remote RDP access to the Active Directory domain controllers‘ desktop. In this post we’ll show how you to grant…
CoreyApril 26, 2021
In Windows Server 2016/2019 and Windows 10 (starting with build 1709), the Server Message Block 1.0 (SMBv1) network protocol used to access shared folders is…
CoreyApril 21, 2021
When connecting a new USB device to the computer, Windows automatically detects the device and installs an appropriate driver. As a result, the user can…
CoreyMarch 17, 2021
You can use Group Policy to add Active Directory users and groups to the local Administrators group on domain-joined servers and workstations. This allows you to grant local admin privileges…
CoreyFebruary 15, 2021
Using Group Policies, you can create a shortcut to a specific app on the desktops of all (or certain) domain users. GPO allows you to…
CoreyJanuary 25, 2021
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
Suppose you want to use the Firefox browser to open .HTML files on all domain computers (you want to associate this file extension with the app). To…
CoreyJuly 6, 2020
On Windows workstations and servers, especially on RDS (Remote Desktop Services) servers, there is a regular need to remove old (unused) user profiles from C:\Users.…
CoreyApril 20, 2020
In a Active Directory domain, you can centrally manage and customize Start Menu and Taskbar Layout on Windows 10 users’ computers using Group Policy. This…
CoreyApril 1, 2020
Let’s look at how to automatically install and connect printers to specific users, computers and groups in an Active Directory domain using Group Policy (GPO).…
CoreyMarch 30, 2020
The built-in Windows Remote Desktop client (mstsc.exe) allows you to save the username and password used to connect to the remote computer. Using a saved…
CoreyMarch 2, 2020
In this post I will cover typical reasons why a Group Policy object (GPO) may not be applied to an organizational unit (OU), specific computer…
CoreyFebruary 26, 2020
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…
CoreyFebruary 19, 2020
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…
CoreyFebruary 3, 2020
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…
CoreyJanuary 22, 2020
By default, the logon screen in Windows 10/8.1 and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2 displays the account of the last user who logged in to the…
CoreyJanuary 10, 2020
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…
CoreyJanuary 1, 2020
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…
CoreyDecember 25, 2019
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,…
CoreyDecember 18, 2019
In this article, we will look at how to use Group Policy (GPO) to centrally create, modify, import and delete any registry keys on domain-joined…
CoreyDecember 13, 2019
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…
CoreyDecember 9, 2019
Group Policy allows you to run various script files at a computer startup/shutdown or during user logon/logout. You can use GPOs not only to run…
CoreyNovember 27, 2019
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…
CoreyJune 26, 2019
WMI filters in Group Policy (GPO) allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. A WMI filter is a set…
CoreyMay 15, 2019
