Managed Service Account (MSA) is a special type of Active Directory account that can be used to securely run services, applications, and scheduled tasks. The basic idea is that the…
The Just Enough Administration (JEA) feature is available starting from PowerShell version 5.0 and allows you to delegate administrative privileges to anything you can manage with PowerShell. The main purpose…
“The RPC server is unavailable” error appears on Windows when a communication error occurs between two computers in a network. Your computer (an RPC client) cannot connect to a remote…
You can use PowerShell’s features to create ZIP archives and extract them. In PowerShell 5.0 (this PowerShell version is installed by default on Windows 10), a separate module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive is…
In this article we will talk about the WinSxS folder in Windows, the reasons of its constant growth and ways to clean up it. The C:\Windows\WinSxS directory is the repository…
File Explorer always starts in Windows with least privileges. Even if you click on the executable file C:\Windows\explorer.exe and try to start it in the “Run as administrator” mode, the…
If you check what updates are installed on your computer through Windows Update every month, you may have noted the critical update KB890830 (Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool). This update…
One of the servers (running Windows Server 2016) has run out of free disk space on a system drive (C:\). I checked and cleaned all resource-consuming locations (WinSxS, TEMP folders,…
In this article we’ll show how to configure automatic screen (session) lock on domain computers or servers using Group Policy. Locking the computer screen when the user is inactive (idle)…
Most users and administrators use the taskschd.msc graphical interface console to create and manage scheduled tasks on Windows. However, in various scripts and automated flows, it is much more convenient…