If you manage a large number of servers or workstations running Windows, sometimes it is useful to display basic information about the operating system and environment right on the Windows…
The Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and the reg.exe command-line utility aren’t the only tools to access and manage the registry in Windows. PowerShell provides a large number of tools for the…
By default, the login screen on Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2019/2016/2012R2 displays the account of the last user who logged in to the computer. You can configure different behavior…
In this article, we’ll show how to enable DNS logging for all user queries on a DNS server running Windows Server, how to parse and analyze DNS logs. I faced…
The read-only domain controller (RODC) feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008. The main purpose of the RODC is the secure installation of the own domain controller in remote…
Current Windows versions collect information about the health of hard drives in your computer via SMART and may notify a user in case of any problems. Let’s see what a…
In this article, we will show how to track an event of launching a certain program (process) in Windows and perform an action (run a script, command, program, send an…
To ensure the stability and security of your Windows device, you should regularly install security updates (manually using MSU/CAB files or automatically via Windows Update). Microsoft releases new Windows updates…
The Out-GridView cmdlet allows displaying data as an interactive graphical table that can be filtered or sorted based on different criteria. You can use the Out-Gridview cmdlet in scripts where…
In a previous article, we showed how to configure proxy settings in Windows via GPO. However, even non-admin users can manually change the proxy settings on their computers. In this…