Every Windows system administrator should be able to use not only graphical AD snap-ins (usually it is ADUC, Active Directory Users and Computers), but also PowerShell cmdlets to perform everyday…
Microsoft has officially ended support for Internet Explorer (IE) in all current builds of Windows 10 and 11 since June 15, 2022 (except LTSC editions and Windows Server). The classic…
Administrators should occasionally delete old user profiles (retired or inactive users, etc.) from C:\Users on Windows workstations and servers. The Windows user profile cleanup task is most commonly performed on…
In this article, we will look at how to enable the Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.2) protocol on different Windows versions, including cases for .Net and WinHTTP applications. TLS 1.0…
In this article, we will look at several ways to manage non-admin user permissions to restart or shutdown Windows workstations or servers. By default, non-privileged users can only reboot and…
Quite often, you have to expand virtual machine disks when the system drive runs out of free space. For example, you increased the disk size in the VMware or Hyper-V…
Let’s say you try to request a certificate from a Windows CA and get an error stating The requested certificate template is not supported by this CA. In my case,…
When replacing a motherboard or a network card, during a P2V or cold migration of virtual machines between hypervisors, or when configuring multiple VLANs on a single NIC in Windows,…
Several commands are available in Windows that allow you to shutdown or restart a local or remote computer. In this article, we’ll look at how to use the shutdown command…
You can use the Group Policy to create and deploy scheduled tasks to domain computers. For example, you can create a task that automatically logs out users or shuts down…