There are several different tools to get information about the time of a user logon to an Active Directory domain. The time of the last successful user authentication in an…
Thumbs.db (thumbnail cache) is a hidden system file that is automatically created by the Windows File Explorer in folders containing image and video files when the thumbnail preview mode is…
In August 2020, Microsoft released an update to fix a critical Windows Server vulnerability in Active Directory — CVE-2020-1472 (more known as Zerologon) . This update was successfully installed on…
User Account Control (UAC) is a default Windows security feature designed to prevent unwanted changes to the operating system. When a program tries to perform an action that requires administrator…
Using local accounts (including the local administrator) to access another computer over network in Active Directory environments is not recommended on a number of reasons. The same local administrator username…
You can use file system object access event auditing to identify a specific user who created, deleted, or modified a specific file. In this article, we’ll show you how to…
Although Microsoft has removed the requirement to periodically change user passwords from its security baselines, most on-premises Active Directory domains have a policy that specifies the maximum age of a…
User cannot logon to the computer due to the GPSVC (Group Policy Client service) connection error on one of the computers running Windows 10. When trying to log on with…
The Server Message Block (SMB) 1.0 file-sharing protocol is disabled by default in the latest versions of Windows 11 and 10 and in Windows Server 2019/2022. This version of the…
This article aims to help administrators manage SSL/TLS certificates used to secure RDP connections in Windows. First, we will look at how to replace a self-signed RDP certificate with a…