Windows 10

GPO logon scripts allow you to run a BAT or PowerShell script at computer startup or user logon/logoff. In some cases, an administrator wants a particular script (command/program) to be…

NIC Teaming (or Load Balancing/Failover – LBFO, or NIC bonding) allows joining multiple physical network adapters (NICs) into a single logical network card. In this article, we’ll show how to…

This article is about managing Hyper-V virtual machines from the PowerShell console. We’ll look at how to create virtual switches and virtual machines, change VM settings, and manage VMs. You…

The Group Policy Central Store is located in the SYSVOL directory on the domain controllers, replicated between them, and used to store ADMX/ADML GPO template files used to manage Active…

Microsoft releases new security updates for its products at least once a month.  In most cases, the Windows Update service does a great job of automatically getting and installing updates…

From time to time, users of the file server may report that the contents of network folders don’t refresh automatically and new files are not immediately visible in the folder…

If the Windows Update service is not working properly, updates are not downloading or installing, restoring its original settings is the easiest and most effective solution. In this article, we’ll…

The Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter is a Windows virtual device that is used to directly connect two devices using Wi-Fi Direct, bypassing Wi-Fi access points/routers. This specification is described…

If you see the “The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect” error when trying to start an app in Windows, this means that the program…

You can use the PSWindowsUpdate PowerShell module to manage Windows Updates from the command line. PSWindowsUpdate module is available for download from the PowerShell Gallery and allows administrators to scan,…