When the system warns you that free space on your local drive is running out, the first thing that the administrator does is trying to find all large files that occupy much space. To search for new files, you can use Windows Explorer (there are several pre-defined templates of searching by size), your favorite file manager or third-party tools. However, unlike PowerShell, all these tools require installation. Let’s consider the example of quick searching large files on your local computer drive using PowerShell.
Every time to login to Windows 10, a user has to enter password for local or Microsoft (online) account. This guarantees a certain level of data protection against access by…
Besides Remote Assistance, you can use Remote Desktop Session Shadowing to remotely connect to the Windows 10 user’s desktop. Most administrators are using this feature to connect to user sessions…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Managing Printers and Drivers with PowerShell in Windows 10 / Server 2016
March 14, 2019In the previous article we looked at the old-school VBS scripts that can be used to manage printers and print operation in all Windows versions, starting from Windows XP. Today,…
Quite often, VMWare administrators are faced with the fact that the list of virtual machines contains VMs with the Invalid (Unknown) status. As a rule, the issue occurs after deleting…
A mandatory user profile is a special pre-configured type of roaming user profile than can be changed only by administrators. Users who have been assigned a mandatory profile can work…
- Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Install & Configure WSUS on Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016
March 5, 2019Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is an update service that allows administrators to centrally manage patches and security updates for Microsoft products (Windows, Office, SQL Server, Exchange, etc.) on computers…
- Windows 10
Windows 10 Upgrade Error: Windows Might be Installed in Unsupported Directory
March 1, 2019When trying to upgrade the current Windows 10 build to 1809 (October 2018 Update) using the ISO file, I have come across an interesting problem. At the stage of selecting…
- PowerShellWindows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Copying Approved Updates Between WSUS Target Groups
March 1, 2019If you install updates on corporate computers and servers using your internal WSUS server, you may test them in advance on pilot groups of computers or servers (you can separate…
- Windows 7Windows Server 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 R2
Slow Network Shared Folder Refresh on Windows Server
February 28, 2019Users of one of my customer constantly complain that newly created files don’t appear immediately on the network shared folder on Windows Server 2008 R2, but with a long delay,…