I have had an idea to write a simple PowerShell script to automatically block (blacklist) IP addresses, on which RDP brute-force attempts or continuous RDP attacks are detected, in Windows…
This article gives the basics on how to manage settings and rules of built-in Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security using PowerShell. We’ll consider how to enable/disable the firewall for…
I saw a strange message “An internal error has occurred” when trying to connect from Windows 10 to a recently deployed RDSH server running Windows Server 2012 R2 using RDP.…
From time to time we notice that some connected network printers go offline, stop printing and print jobs begin to queue on the print servers running Windows Server. In this…
You can manage Windows services not only from the services.msc snap-in or sc.exe command line tool, but also using PowerShell. In this article we’ll consider different scenarios of managing Windows…
In this article we‘ll show you how to create a software mirror (RAID1) from two GPT disks with Windows Server 2016/Windows 10 installed for UEFI. We’ll consider a full-featured BCD…
If you are against of installing Windows updates automatically and disable Windows Update service (wuauserv) completely, then you have to download and install the latest security updates manually once a…
Quite a number of applications on Windows Server and Windows 10 require .NET Framework 3.5 (in spite of .NET Framework 4.6 is installed by default). For example, I couldn’t install and…
My colleague’s home computer running Windows 10 began to lose the Internet access from time to time (once in 2-3 days with the Limited connection status in tray). When running…
A very common problem is when Outlook starts asking for the user credentials, even if the correct password is specified. It looks like this: after starting Outlook successfully connects to…