You can use Local Group Policy to configure Windows or user settings on computers in small workgroup networks (without an AD domain). Earlier, the main disadvantage of a local GPO was the inability to apply the policy settings to the specific local user or group. For example, if you have disabled USB devices in the local GPO, this policy is applied both to users and local administrator accounts.
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Disable Windows Error Reporting and Clear WER\ReportQueue Folder on Windows?
February 27, 2023The Windows Error Reporting service (WER) is used to collect the debug information about system and third-party app failures and send error reports to Microsoft servers. This information should be…
- ExchangeMicrosoft 365PowerShell
Connect to Exchange Servers and Microsoft 365 with Remote PowerShell
April 27, 2022In this article we will show how to remotely connect to an on-premises Exchange Server or Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online) from the PowerShell console.
- VirtualizationVMWareWindows 10
Adding a Sound Card to a Virtual Machine on VMWare ESXi
September 15, 2022By default, there are no sound devices in VMWare ESXi virtual machines. If you want to get sound from a guest Windows VM, it is easier to use the RDP…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Time-Based (Temporary) Group Membership in Active Directory
April 18, 2022The version of Active Directory in Windows Server 2016 introduces an interesting feature that allows you to temporarily add a user to an AD security group. This feature is called…
PowerShell has a lot of features to manage processes on a local or a remote computer. Using PowerShell, you can get a list of running processes, suspend a hung-up process,…
- SecurityWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Dumping User Passwords from Windows Memory with Mimikatz
May 11, 2023In this article, written as a part of a series devoted to Windows security, we will learn quite a simple method for getting passwords of all active Windows users using…
- PowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Setting Remote Desktop Drain Mode on a Windows Server RDS Host
October 3, 2022You can use RDS Drain Mode to maintain terminal hosts in a Remote Desktop Services farm. If you enable Drain Mode for your RDS server, you can prevent the server…
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used to get information about the current status of servers, network equipment, printers or other IP devices. You can get different metrics through SNMP:…
- Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Set, Copy, Export or Restore NTFS Permissions Using iCACLS?
May 10, 2023You can use the built-in iCACLS tool to manage NTFS permissions on Windows. The icacls.exe command line tool allows you to get or change Access Control Lists (ACLs) for files…