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 software doesn’t work as expected, the user logs off incorrectly, or when the user opened a file and forgot to close it (went home, on vacation, etc.). In all these cases, the file on the shared network folder is still open (and locked) and cannot be modified by other users. Other users can see such a message when trying to open a locked file (depending on the application used): The document filename is locked for editing by another user. To open a read-only copy of his document, click…
On your VMWare ESXi host, you can redirect an attached local USB device/flash drive/disk inside the virtual machine. This technology is called USB Passthrough and available starting from ESXi 4.1.
- Active DirectoryPowerShell
Managing User Photos in Active Directory Using ThumbnailPhoto Attribute
April 18, 2022Active Directory user accounts have a special thumbnailPhoto attribute in which a user’s photo can be stored as binary data. Outlook, OWA, Lync/Skype for Business, SharePoint (and other apps) can…
In this article we’ll show how to solve problems that occur when a computer running Linux Ubuntu/Mint/Kali doesn’t boot or drops to a busybox prompt during the initramfs initialization. The user…
When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches the specific Windows VM disk.…
- Active DirectoryGroup Policies
Create Desktop Shortcuts on Domain Computers via GPO
February 16, 2021Using Group Policies, you can create a shortcut to a specific app on the desktops of all (or certain) domain users. GPO allows you to create a shortcut for a…
- Active DirectoryWindows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Restore Active Directory from a Backup?
April 19, 2023In this article we’ll show how to restore Active Directory domain controller from a System State backup created earlier (see the article Active Directory backup) and discuss the types and…
- Active DirectoryWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Unable to Access SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders from Windows 10
May 10, 2023I noticed some strange things when trying to access SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders in the domain from Windows 10/Windows Server 2016. When I tried to access the domain by the…
- CentOSLinuxRHEL
Keepalived: Configuring High Availability with IP Failover on CentOS/RHEL
May 10, 2023In this article, we’ll consider a high-available failover configuration of two squid (Linux) proxy servers to access the Internet from a corporate LAN. To build a failover configuration we are…
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 after each successful connection to…