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 Windows notification of physical problems with a hard drive looks like and how to get SMART information about the health of your disks using built-in tools (WMI classes, PowerShell and command prompt).
The task of searching for objects in Active Directory (users, groups, or computers) by name using some pattern, regular expression, or wildcard is not as obvious as it seems. The…
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Run a Script (Program) When a Specific Program Opens/Closes in Windows
March 13, 2024In 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…
- Active DirectoryWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Rename an Active Directory Domain
July 3, 2024In this short article, we will show you how to properly change an Active Directory domain name from test.com to resource.loc. In fact, it is not the best idea to…
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Using Out-GridView to View and Select Table Data in PowerShell
March 16, 2024The 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…
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Prevent Users from Changing Proxy Settings in Windows
February 27, 2023In 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…
- Group PoliciesPowerShellWindows 10Windows 11
How to Disable Automatic Driver Updates on Windows
January 24, 2025In addition to operating system security updates and patches, Windows Update provides driver updates for most certified devices. When Windows Update scans your computer and finds that a newer driver…
In VMware vSphere, you can use an iSCSI disk as a shared datastore for your ESXi hosts. An ESXi host accesses iSCSI storage over your local network using the TCP…
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Configure KMS Activation Host on Windows Server 2022/2019/2016
March 15, 2024Windows Server running the Volume Activation Services role can act as a KMS (Key Management Service) server, allowing you to activate computers with volume editions of the Windows Server and…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
Find the Current User Logged on a Remote Computer
March 15, 2024Quite often an administrator needs to quickly find out the username logged on a remote Windows computer. In this article, we’ll show some tools and PowerShell scripts that can help…