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…
During a clean OS install, Windows Installer creates a special System Reserved Partition (SRP) on the MBR disk partition table. This is a hidden partition with the…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
The monitoring system on one of my servers running Windows Server 2016 started sending multiple messages of the Volume Shadow Copy Service error with the…
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…
Windows has many tools for diagnosing problems in TCP/IP networks (ping, telnet, pathping, etc.). But not all of them allow you to conveniently check the status or…
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…
A quite interesting feature, Storage Replica (SR), appeared in Windows Server 2016 that allows you to replicate the local disk volume to a remote server for disaster…
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).…
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…
In all Windows operation systems the default port assigned to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is TCP 3389. If your computer is connected to the Internet directly (e. g., a…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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