Group Policies

GPResult.exe is a console administrative tool designed to analyze and diagnose group policy settings that are applied to a computer and/or user in the Active Directory domain. In particular, GPResult…

Group policies are a powerful and at the same time flexible tool to configure Windows settings and are indispensable means of bringing computers to a single configuration in the Active…

When connecting a new USB device to the computer, Windows automatically detects the device and installs an appropriate driver, which means that the user can almost immediately use a connected…

In this article, I have tried to collect all major organizational and technical rules of using privileged / administrative accounts in the organization to improve security in the Windows network.…

Originally, to configure Internet Explorer settings from central location (most often you need to specify proxy server configuration) using Group Policies in the Active Directory domain environment, the Internet Explorer…

One of the main tools to configure user and system settings in Windows is the Group Policy Objects (GPO). Local and domain policies (if a computer is in the Active…

According to statistics, the most popular browser nowadays is Google Chrome, but its position in corporate networks is not so strong, and many administrators avoid using Google Chrome  in the…

Many administrators use Group Policy feature of running startup / logoff scripts to perform different tasks. In addition to conventional BAT, CMD, VBS, etc. scripts, you can run PowerShell scripts…

The IT community remembered late June, 2017, due to massive infection of many largest companies and government institutions in Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France and some other countries with a new…

Using obsolete protocols without explicit need may become a potential security flaw in any computer network. In this context, the recent buzz over WCry ransomware is showcase, and the easiest…