Every experienced Windows administrator has faced some issues with the WMI service (Windows Management Instrumentation) and its components. The problems in WMI subsystem are critical for the normal operation of Windows, therefore the administrator needs to check and restore the functionality of WMI as soon as possible. In this article we’ll describe quite a simple technique of troubleshooting and fixing WMI problems on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019.
Sometimes you may need to directly connect an external USB flash drive (stick) to your VMWare ESXi host. For example, you may need it to copy a virtual machine image…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Sign a PowerShell Script (PS1) with a Code Signing Certificate?
February 25, 2021A script or an executable with a digital signature allows a user to make sure that a file is original and its code has not been changed by third parties.…
In this article, we will show you how to check the current TCP port on which a named or default MS SQL Server instance is listening (waiting for connection on),…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Shadow (Remote Control) a User’s RDP session on RDS Windows Server 2016/2019?
February 27, 2023Shadow session mode allows RDS administrators to view and interact with the user’s desktop. Remote Desktop Shadowing mode works on all modern versions of Windows starting from Windows Server 2012…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Configuring PowerShell Script Execution Policy
February 27, 2023By default, Windows settings prevent PowerShell scripts from running. From a security perspective, it is important to restrict untrusted and malicious code from running from PowerShell scripts. The Execution Policy…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Configuring Proxy Settings on Windows Using Group Policy Preferences
February 27, 2023In this article, we’ll take a look at how to centrally configure proxy settings on Windows 10 computers in a domain using Group Policy. Most popular browsers (such as Microsoft…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesPowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Updating Group Policy Settings on Windows Domain Computers
February 27, 2023In this article we will show how to update Group Policy (GPO) settings on Windows computers in an Active Directory domain: how to update (refresh) Group Policies automatically, how to…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
Managing Administrative Shares (Admin$, IPC$, C$, D$) in Windows 10
February 11, 2021Administrative Shares are used in Windows to remotely access and manage a computer. If you open the computer management console (compmgmt.msc), expand the System Tools -> Shared Folders -> Share…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2019
Packet Monitor (PktMon) – Built-in Packet Sniffer in Windows 10
February 10, 2021Packet Monitor (PktMon.exe) is a built-in network traffic analyzer (sniffer) that was introduced in Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019. In the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004),…