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 to access Exchange mailbox, accordingly the user cannot manage the email profiles without this tool.
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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…
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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…
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Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2016
Transferring/Seizing FSMO Roles to Another Domain Controller
March 18, 2020In 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…
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Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows 10
Deploy PowerShell Active Directory Module without Installing RSAT
March 13, 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…
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Windows 10Windows Server 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Run Disk Cleanup (Cleanmgr.exe) on Windows Server 2016/2012 R2/2008 R2?
March 12, 2020The Disk Cleanup tool allows the administrator to quickly clean up the Windows Server system drive by deleting unnecessary and temporary files, including cleaning the WinSxS directory from files of…
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Recently I have had a chance to work with SuperMicro servers that were new to me. SuperMicro servers can be are managed remotely using the IPMI interface. In this article…
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Active DirectoryPowerShell
Set-ADComputer: How to Change AD Computer Properties and Add Logged User Info?
March 5, 2020The Set-ADComputer cmdlet allows you to change the attributes of a computer account object in Active Directory. In this article, we’ll show how to add current logged-in username and IP…
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CentOSHyper-VLinux
Hyper-V Boot Error: The Image’s Hash and Certificate Are not Allowed
March 4, 2020I came across an interesting issue when trying to install Linux CentOS on a virtual machine running on a Hyper-V server (the type of the virtual machine was “Generation 2”…
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PowerShellWindows 10
How to Block a Domain or Website on Windows Defender Firewall with PowerShell?
February 26, 2020Let’s consider some ways to block access to the specific websites, domain names, URLs or IP addresses in Windows without using third-party tools. In our case, we will try to…