When creating new user accounts in Active Directory, an administrator sets a unique initial password for each account and tells it to a user (usually at the first logon a user is prompted to change this password by the option “User must change password at next logon” of the AD userAccountControl attribute). If you do not want to invent a new random password for each user or you are using a PowerShell script to create AD accounts, you can generate unique passwords automatically using a simple PowerShell script.
From time to time in the vSphere Client interface I come across the notification: Your password will expire in xx days. I decided to learn how to manage password policies…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
DNS Resolution via VPN Not Working on Windows 10
September 20, 2022The DNS servers and suffixes configured for VPN connections are used in Windows 10 to resolve names using DNS in the Force Tunneling mode (“Use default gateway on remote network”…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Manage NTFS Permissions with PowerShell?
January 17, 2020In order to manage access to files or folders in Windows, a special ACL (Access Control List) is assigned to an NTFS file system object (a file or a folder).…
If you need to run a PowerShell script with the administrator privileges, you can check if the current powershell.exe process has the elevated permissions right in your PS code.
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Fixing Windows Update and DISM Error 0x80073712 on Windows Server 2016/Windows 10
March 13, 2020I 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 component store.…
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 scan opened network…
In this overview I have tried to describe the main reasons why Outlook 2019/2016/2013/2010 does not display images in the email body and ways of solving this issue (actually, the…
- Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Installing a Free Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL Certificate on IIS Web Server / RDS
October 26, 2022In this guide, we will show you how to install and bind a free TLS/SSL Let’s Encrypt certificate for a site on the IIS web server running on Windows Server…
Many users note that when viewing any image in the new built-in Photos app in Windows 10, it takes a long time to open. The delay when starting Photos UWP…