Windows Server 2016

Despite Microsoft has been porting its RDP client to different platforms (iOS, macOS, Android, there is also a separate UWP remote desktop app for Windows 10) in the recent years,…

In this article we’ll show how to fix common Windows Update errors by resetting Windows Update components configuration. As a rule, it is the most effective and the easiest way…

You can install an SMTP server using built-in tools in all versions of Windows Server. This SMTP server can work as a mail relay service that should receive and send…

In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…

WMI filters in Group Policy (GPO) allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. A WMI filter is a set of WMI queries (the WMI…

In some cases an administrator needs to configure multiple IP addresses one a single network interface (NIC) in Windows. An example of such situations can be the need to run…

The FTP protocol is one of the oldest protocols (it is more than 40 years old), but it is still widely used where a simple file transfer protocol is required.…

How to manually forcefully stop a hung Windows service process that hangs at “Stopping” or “Not responding”? Most Windows administrators have faced a problem, when they try to stop (restart)…

Recently Microsoft has added a standard PowerShell module to manage Windows local users and groups called Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts. Earlier you had to manually download and import this module into PowerShell. Now…

When started, many programs require permission elevation (shield on the app icon), but actually they don’t need the administrator privileges for their normal operation. For example, you can manually grant…