From time to time we notice that some connected network printers go offline, stop printing and print jobs begin to queue on the print servers running Windows Server. In this article we’ll consider why a network printer may go to offline state and how to fix this problem without printer re-installation or print server restart.
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Manage Windows Services with PowerShell?
March 15, 2021You can manage Windows services not only from the services.msc snap-in or sc.exe command line tool, but also using PowerShell. In this article we’ll consider different scenarios of managing Windows…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Mirror (RAID1) Boot GPT Hard Drive on Windows 10/ Server 2016?
April 19, 2023In this article we‘ll show you how to create a software mirror (RAID1) from two GPT disks with Windows Server 2016/Windows 10 installed for UEFI. We’ll consider a full-featured BCD…
- PowerShellWindows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Managing Windows Server Roles & Features with PowerShell
May 10, 2023In Windows Server 2012R2/2016/2019, you can use the graphical Server Manager console to install and remove server roles and features. However, in most cases you can do the same from…
- Active DirectoryPowerShell
Get-ADDomainController: Getting Domain Controllers Info via PowerShell
July 8, 2022You can use the Get-ADDomainController PowerShell cmdlet to get information about the domain controllers in Active Directory. This cmdlet is a part of PowerShell Active Directory module and requires RSAT…
A user reported a missing Mail app icon in the Control Panel on a computer running Windows 10 1903. Office 365 is installed on the computer, and Outlook is used…
A Windows administrator can use the good old Dnscmd cli tool or DNSServer module for PowerShell to manage DNS zones and records. In this article we’ll cover the basic operations…
The first thing an administrator can come across when deploying Office 2019 in an enterprise environment is that now you cannot download an Office 2019 installation ISO image via Volume…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2016
Transferring/Seizing FSMO Roles to Another Domain Controller
September 7, 2023In this article, we’ll consider how to find domain controllers with FSMO roles in Active Directory, how to transfer one or more FSMO roles to another (additional/secondary) domain controller, and…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows 10
Deploy PowerShell Active Directory Module without Installing RSAT
April 15, 2020In one of the previous articles we showed how to use the Set-ADComputer cmdlet in a GPO logon script to save the current logged in user info to the properties…