To perform some actions in Windows, it’s not enough to have administrator privileges. For example, you cannot replace or delete system files and some registry…
CoreyJuly 7, 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
When replacing a motherboard or a network card, during a P2V or cold migration of virtual machines between hypervisors/sites, or when configuring multiple VLANs on a…
CoreyJune 14, 2021
Windows.edb is the Windows Search index database. A search index allows users to quickly search for data and files in the file system due to indexing…
CoreyMay 10, 2021
In this post we will consider how to install and configure MPIO on Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. MPIO (Multi—Path Input Output) is a technology that allows to build fault-tolerant transport…
CoreyApril 12, 2021
Windows file server administrators often have to force close the shared files that are open simultaneously by multiple users. This usually happens if the desktop…
CoreyMarch 3, 2021
By default normal users cannot manage Windows services. This means that users cannot stop, start, restart, or change the settings/permissions of Windows services. In some…
CoreyFebruary 1, 2021
When analyzing the server licenses used in our corporate network (with a KMS server deployed) we found that a more expensive Windows Server Datacenter edition is installed on one…
CoreyJanuary 20, 2021
In this post we’ll show how you to restore a Active Directory domain controller from a System State backup created earlier (see the post Active Directory…
CoreyJanuary 18, 2021
When trying to configure a new RDSH node in the RDS farm running Windows Server 2012 R2/2016/2019, you may be encountered with the following warning…
CoreyJanuary 11, 2021
The built-in Windows Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) client (mstsc.exe) saves the remote computer name (or IP address) and the username that is used to login…
CoreyJanuary 4, 2021
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
In this post, we will show you how to install and bind a free TLS/SSL Let’s Encrypt certificate for a site on the IIS web…
CoreyJune 10, 2020
In this post we will look on how to manage non-admin user permissions to restart or shutdown of Windows computers or servers. By default, non-privileged…
CoreyJune 3, 2020
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)…
CoreyFebruary 14, 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
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…
CoreyJanuary 20, 2020
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…
CoreyJanuary 15, 2020
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…
CoreyJune 12, 2019
