You can use the open-source usbipd-win project to access a computer’s physical USB devices from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or Hyper-V virtual machine. This tool allows you to pass-through an external USB device connected to the Windows host to any Linux distribution (running as WSL) or to a virtual machine. This allows performing any actions with USB devices from virtual machines or Linux environment (flashing Android devices, using ADB and Fastboot, accessing smart cards, working with Arduino hardware, etc.).
In some cases, users may need to send or forward an e-mail from an Outlook inbox directly to a Microsoft Teams channel. An e-mail address is automatically generated for each…
- Azure and Microsoft 365PowerShell
How to Restore Deleted Users in Entra ID (Microsoft 365)
March 17, 2024When you delete a user account in Azure (Microsoft 365), the user is not deleted immediately. The disabled user account is stored in AAD for 30 days. In this article,…
- Windows 11Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Fix: Remote Desktop Services Is Currently Busy
March 15, 2024In some cases, users cannot sign to RDS farm hosts running Windows Server using the built-in RDP client (mstsc.exe) with the following error: The task you are trying to do…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2019
Send-MailMessage: Sending E-mails with PowerShell
March 17, 2024You can use the built-in Send-MailMessage cmdlet to send SMTP e-mails from PowerShell (previously you can use the .Net System.Net.Mail class to send e-mail messages). Send-MailMessage allows you to send…
- Group PoliciesPowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
Clear Cache and Temp Files in User Profiles on Windows (RDS) with PowerShell and GPO
March 21, 2023Windows Server RDS farm administrators are often faced with the problem of running out of space on a system drive due to a large amount of user data. This article…
- Azure and Microsoft 365PowerShell
Prevent Users from Creating New Groups in Microsoft 365 (Teams/Outlook)
March 17, 2024By default, any user from your Azure tenant can create Microsoft 365 groups. When a user creates a new Microsoft 365 group, additional resources are automatically created: a Teams group,…
Locks in MS SQL Server are one way to ensure the integrity of data when changes are made by multiple users at the same time. MSSQL locks objects on a…
- Windows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2019
Copy/Paste Not Working in Remote Desktop (RDP) Clipboard
March 17, 2024You can use the clipboard in an RDP session to copy/paste text and files between a local computer and a remote host (this can be either a Windows workstation or…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesWindows 10Windows Server 2019
How to Disable NTLM Authentication in Windows Domain
March 16, 2024NTLM (NT LAN Manager) is a legacy Microsoft authentication protocol that dates back to Windows NT. Although Microsoft introduced the more secure Kerberos authentication protocol back in Windows 2000, NTLM…