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…
In this article, we will look at how to create iSCSI storage based on virtual disks on a Windows Server 2025 host and how to connect this storage (iSCSI LUN)…
Active Directory provides several methods for determining when a user has logged on to the domain. The time of a user’s last successful authentication in Active Directory can be retrieved from…
When users connect to a corporate VPN server (AlwaysOnVPN, Windows Server RRAS, or OpenVPN server) from a home network, they may report that Internet access is unavailable while the VPN…
When you delete an object in Active Directory (user, group, computer, or OU), it is not permanently removed right away. Within 180 days, deleted AD objects can be recovered by…
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…
Sometimes, local administrator permissions may not be sufficient to manage certain system files, registry keys, processes, and services in Windows. In such cases, an administrator can take ownership of files/other…
You can use file system object access event auditing to identify which user created, deleted, or modified a specific file. In this article, we’ll show you how to configure event…