In 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 principles of AD DC recovery.
- 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…
Mbr2gpt.exe is a new built-in Windows 10 console tool that allows you to convert a disk with the MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table to a GPT (GUID Partition Table)…
In this article we’ll talk about Active Directory domain controller backup and learn how to configure automatic AD backup using PowerShell and built-in Windows Server tools.
The setup.exe installer in a Windows 10 install image has quite a large number of the command-line parameters that administrators may be interested in to automate and manage a Windows…
- CentOSKVMLinuxWindows Server 2012 R2
KVM: How to Expand or Shrink a Virtual Machine Disk Size?
June 19, 2023In this article we’ll talk about how to resize KVM virtual machine disks for popular disk types. We’ll show how to correctly increase a virtual machine disk size in the…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
RDP Brute Force Protection with PowerShell and Windows Firewall Rules
May 10, 2023I have had an idea to write a simple PowerShell script to automatically block (blacklist) IP addresses, on which RDP brute-force attempts or continuous RDP attacks are detected, in Windows…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2
An Internal Error has Occurred: Remote Desktop Connection Error
May 13, 2020I saw a strange message “An internal error has occurred” when trying to connect from Windows 10 to a recently deployed RDSH server running Windows Server 2012 R2 using RDP.…