Most Windows administrators even woken up in the middle of the night are able to tell which Group Policy section is used to set proxy server settings for Internet Explorer. It should be reminded that Internet Explorer parameters (including proxy server configuration) are set using Group Policy Editor (gpmc.msc). The.. read more
Knowledge base for system administrators
How to Find Your SharePoint Version
I always forget how to find out the SharePoint version. So it’s a sort of reminder for me. You can see the SharePoint version in Administration Center -> System Settings -> Manage servers in this farm. Using PowerShell: Get-SPFarm | Select BuildVersion The cmdlet is available only in the SharePoint.. read more
Why Windows 8.1 Not Going to Sleep Mode: Troubleshooting Guide
In this article, we’ll cover possible reasons why Windows refuses to sleep or won’t go into Sleep Mode. The article is applicable both for Windows 8 / 8.1 and Windows 7. The Sleep Mode issue can manifest itself in a number of ways, for example, the system can wake up.. read more
Enable Access-based Enumeration in Windows Server
Access-based Enumeration allows on network shared folders hide files and folders from the users who don’t have NTFS permissions to access them. Thus you can provide additional security to the information stored in the network folder (due to hiding the structure and names of folders and files), improve its usability.. read more
Display Last Logon Info on the Windows Welcome Screen
Windows has a useful feature that allows to display the information about the last interactive sign-in attempt directly on Windows Welcome screen. It looks like this: each time when a user types the password to logon into the system, the information about the date and time of the last successful.. read more
How to Extract Windows User Passwords from Hiberfil.sys
Mimikatz, a tool that allows to extract Windows credentials as plain text from LSA, is available since 2012. However, besides a well-covered feature of recovering passwords from the memory of a running OS, it has another interesting capability. Further a step-by-step instructions are given, how to easily extract the Windows.. read more
Enable Multiple Concurrent RDP Sessions in Windows 8
In Windows 8 and 8.1, like in previous Microsoft client OS versions, only one simultaneous incoming RDP connection is supported. It means that only one user (one session) can simultaneously connect to a Windows 8 computer using the Remote Desktop. In most cases it is enough, but sometimes it would.. read more
How to Remove an Inactive NFS Datastore on VMWare ESXi Host
Several times I have come across the situation when the NFS datastore on the VMWare ESXi host becomes unavailable / inactive and greyed out in the host’s storage list. However, the NFS storage stays available on the network level. Usually, it can be solved by removing the NFS storage and.. read more
How to Increase Maximum Attachment Size Limit in Outlook
There is a 20 MB limit on the maximum attachment size in Outlook mail client (including the latest 2010 / 2013 versions). It doesn’t matter if a single large file or several small ones are attached — the total attachment size would not exceed 20 MB.
Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing and Virtualization
In this article we’ll consider licensing peculiarities of the new generation of server OS family — Windows Server 2012 R2 when using the new model of the dual-processor licensing. Also, we’ll tell about the rules and order of licensing to use virtual machines as a guest OS with the support.. read more
