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
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…
CoreyJune 7, 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
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
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
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 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…
CoreyMarch 15, 2021
When installing any role or feature on Windows Server 2016, an error appears that the server requires a restart: “The request to add or remove…
CoreyMarch 10, 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
In this post I will configure SSH authentication with RSA keys on Windows to securely access remote servers/computers. I’ll show how to generate RSA keys…
CoreyFebruary 8, 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
Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019 have got a built-in SSH server based on OpenSSH. In this post we’ll show how to install and…
CoreyDecember 30, 2020
From time to time we notice that some connected network printers go offline, stop printing and print jobs begin to queue on the print servers…
CoreyOctober 26, 2020
In this post we‘ll show you how to create a software mirror (RAID1) from two GPT disks with Windows 10 / Server 2016 / Server…
CoreyOctober 19, 2020
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…
CoreyOctober 7, 2020
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…
CoreySeptember 28, 2020
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…
CoreyJune 22, 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
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…
CoreyJune 1, 2020
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…
CoreyMay 4, 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
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…
CoreyFebruary 5, 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
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…
CoreyJanuary 24, 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
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…
CoreyDecember 11, 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
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…
CoreyNovember 6, 2019
Due to the recent release of the new Windows Server 2019, it is time to update the KMS activation infrastructure in your domain and add…
CoreyOctober 16, 2019
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…
CoreyAugust 28, 2019
In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of…
CoreyJuly 17, 2019
