Windows Server 2012 R2

When you troubleshoot the problems of Windows Update, you often come across different error codes. As a rule, when you see a new error in the windowsupdate.log, setup log or…

By default, common (non-admin) users cannot manage Windows services. It means that they cannot stop, start or change the settings or permissions for system services. In some cases, it is…

The WER (Windows Error Reporting) service is designed to collect the debug information about system and third-party software failures in Windows and report them to Microsoft servers. This information should…

The RDS administrator can use the Shadow session mode to view and remotely manage an active RDP session of any user. This mode has been supported almost since the first…

The technology of differencing disks in Hyper-V was presented by Microsoft quite a long time ago (in Hyper-V version for Windows Server 2008 if I’m not mistaken). Differential disks are…

Due to disabling PPTP VPN support in iOS, one of my clients decided to reconfigure the VPN server running Windows Server 2012 R2 from PPTP to L2TP / IPSec. Internal…

After installing the latest security updates that were released on May 8, 2018 on Windows 10 and Windows 7, users began to complain that when they try to run RemoteApp…

Most backup solutions for Windows use Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create backup copies of the application or service data. In some cases, the VSS service or one of…

Portqry.exe, a part of Support Tools for Windows 2003, is a convenient tool to check the availability of TCP / UDP ports on a remote server that enables to diagnose issues…

In this article, written as a part of a series devoted to Windows systems security (in the last article we discussed the security issues of passwords stored in the GPP),…