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…
(User Account Control) is an important component of the Windows security. When you run any application or process that requires administrator privileges, trying to change system…
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.…
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…
In this post we will show how to configure a tagged VLAN interface on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 (2019/2012R2). The VLAN (Virtual LAN) standard is described in IEEE…
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…
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…
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…
You can configure network ports forwarding in all Windows versions without using third-party tools. Using a port forwarding rule, you can redirect an incoming TCP connection (IPv4…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I faced an error code 0x80073712 when trying to install security updates on Windows Server 2016. As I found later, this error was related to the damaged…
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…
It is very convenient to use the special PSWindowsUpdate module for PowerShell to manage Windows updates from the command line interface. The PSWindowsUpdate is not integrated into…
One of the main metrics, which allows to estimate the performance of the existing or designed storage system is IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). In simple terms, IOPS is…
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)…
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…
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…
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 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…
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