One of the significant disadvantages of Hyper-V over other hypervisors (for example, VMWare ESXi or Proxmox) is the lack of a feature of redirecting USB devices from the host to…
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…
Disk quotas allow Windows administrators to control and limit the amount of disk space that users use on the file systems of servers and workstations. Windows Server supports two types…
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…
A HelpDesk support team asked me to write a PowerShell script to quickly get a screenshot of a user desktop from a remote computer. The main condition is that the…
UWF (Unified Write Filter) is a special file system write filter in Windows 10 that allows you to protect Windows system and user files on the local drive from any…
To perform some actions in Windows, it’s not enough to have administrator privileges. For example, you cannot replace or delete system files and some registry keys, stop system services or…
(User Account Control) is an important component of the Windows security. When you run any application or process that requires administrator privileges, trying to change system settings, protected registry keys…
Using local accounts (including the local administrator) to access another computer over network in Active Directory environments is not recommended on a number of reasons. The same local administrator username…
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…