To apply new local or domain Group Policy (GPO) settings to a Windows computer, the Group Policy Client (gpsvc) service must read the policy files and apply the setting to…
Quite an often task of an Active Directory administrator is to make a list of disabled or inactive user and/or computer accounts. You can use both saved LDAP queries in…
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…
When connecting from home to a corporate VPN server (AlwaysOnVPN, Windows Server RRAS or OpenVPN server), users complain that they don’t have Internet access on their computer with an active…
After removing any object in Active Directory (a user, a group, a computer or an OU), you can restore it. In this article we’ll show how to restore a removed…
When you create a new user in an Active Directory domain, sometimes you need to make them a member of a large number of groups. It is quite tiresome to…
Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…
The HelpDesk support team requested a PowerShell script to quickly capture a screenshot of a user’s desktop from a remote computer. The main requirement is that the HelpDesk employee may…
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…