When a user signs in to Windows for the first time, a system creates their profile, copies settings, installs UWP apps, and does some other things. This takes some time,…
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Using Active Directory User Photo as Account Logon Image on Windows
December 13, 2022Most Microsoft Office apps (Outlook, SharePoint, Office365, Skype for Business, etc,) allow using an Active Directory (Azure AD) photo of the currently signed-in user as the user’s avatar in their…
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Copy Files and Folders to User Computers via GPO
December 9, 2022You can use Group Policies to copy specific files and folders to user computers in the Active Directory domain. You can place files on the Desktop, in a particular user…
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Configuring FSLogix Profile Containers on Windows Server RDS
December 5, 2022Microsoft FSLogix technology is used to manage user profiles and allows you to replace Roaming Profiles and User Profile Disks (UPD) in RDS, VDI, and Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) deployments.…
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Fix: Saved RDP Credentials Didn’t Work on Windows
November 30, 2022The built-in Windows Remote Desktop client (mstsc.exe) allows you to save the username and password used to connect to the remote computer. Thanks to this, the user doesn’t need to…
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How to Find the Source of Account Lockouts in Active Directory
November 22, 2022In this article, we’ll show you how to track user account lockout events on Active Directory domain controllers, and find out from which computer, device, and program the account is…
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How to Disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Windows Using GPO
November 10, 2022In this article, we will show how to disable legacy versions of the Transport Layer Security protocol in Windows using Group Policies. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 versions are no longer…
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Deploying Printers to Domain Users and Computers with GPO
November 8, 2022You can use Group Policies (GPOs) to install and connect shared printers to specific users, computers, and groups in an Active Directory domain. In this article, we’ll look at how…
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Configuring Windows Firewall Rules Using Group Policy
October 10, 2022The Microsoft Defender Firewall is built into all modern versions of Windows and Windows Server and allows you to configure rules for filtering incoming and/or outgoing network traffic on your…
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Changing Default File Associations in Windows 10 and 11
September 29, 2022In this article, we’ll look at how to manage the default File Type Associations (FTA) on Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2022/2019/2016. As an example, we will show how to…