UserAccountControl is one of the most important attributes of the user and computer objects in Active Directory. This attribute determines the state of the account in the AD domain: whether the account is active or locked out, whether the option of password change at the next logon is enabled, whether users can change their passwords, etc. However, not all administrators are fully aware of how the UserAccountControl attribute works and what it is used for in AD
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I saw a strange error: Errno 28 “No space left on device” when trying to manually update a VMWare ESXi version on a standalone host:
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