When creating new user accounts in Active Directory, an administrator sets a unique initial password for each account and tells it to a user (usually at the first logon a…
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Fix: DNS Resolution over VPN Doesn’t Work on Windows
December 27, 2023Force Tunnel mode is enabled by default for all VPN connections in Windows (the ‘Use default gateway on remote network‘ option enabled in the VPN settings). In this mode, name…
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Get-MessageTrackingLog: Search Message Tracking Logs on Exchange Server
October 28, 2021You can use the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to analyze mail flow, message forensics and to get different information about messages sent or received by a specific…
- Hyper-VPowerShellWindows Server 2019Windows Server 2022
How to Backup Hyper-V Virtual Machines (Tutorial)
November 9, 2023This article discusses the specifics of organizing virtual machine backups in the Microsoft Hyper-V environment. We’ll look at the basic requirements for Hyper-V backup solutions, backup strategies, and the main…
Any PowerShell script can be transformed into a real Windows service that runs in the background and starts automatically during your server boot. You can create a Windows service using…
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How to Measure Storage Performance and IOPS on Windows
March 11, 2024One of the main metric, which allows to estimate the performance of the existing or designed storage system is IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second). In simple terms, IOPS is the…
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Implementing Dynamic Groups in Active Directory with PowerShell
October 3, 2024When managing access permissions to different resources in an Active Directory domain, an administrator may need to create dynamic security user groups. The idea of a dynamic group is that…
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How to Read Windows Update Logs on Windows 10 and 11
March 17, 2024In current builds of Windows 10 and 11, the wuauserv Windows Update service logs are not written directly to the WindowsUpdate.log text file. Instead, binary Event Trace Log (ETL) files…
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How to Create and Use a RAM Drive on Windows
December 18, 2023A RAM disk is a virtual drive created in a free area of RAM that the OS sees as a normal local hard drive. The advantage of RAM Drive is…
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Disks and Partitions Management with PowerShell on Windows
July 11, 2025This post will cover how to manage disks, partitions, and volumes using the PowerShell command line. All disk and partition management tasks that are typically performed using the Disk Management…