After installing the latest security updates on my Windows 10 desktop, I can’t remotely connect to my new VDS server (running Windows Server 2012 R2) using the Remote Desktop. When…
You can face an error “The local print spooler service is not running” when trying to install a new printer, when opening the settings of the configured local printer or…
Although PowerShell is a console language, sometimes it is necessary to notify a user from a PS script about a particular event or prompt them to do something. For example,…
WMI filters in Group Policy (GPO) allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. A WMI filter is a set of WMI queries (the WMI…
In some cases an administrator needs to configure multiple IP addresses one a single network interface (NIC) in Windows. An example of such situations can be the need to run…
Recently Microsoft has added a standard PowerShell module to manage Windows local users and groups called Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts. Earlier you had to manually download and import this module into PowerShell. Now…
Sometimes it happens that the security updates for Microsoft products (released under MS Patch Tuesday) cause problems with the OS or third-party software. The issues caused by the updates can…
In this post I’ll show you how to fix the error with the EventID 10016 from the DistributedCOM source on a computer running Windows 10 or Windows Server 2012 R2.…
In the previous article, we looked at the old-school VBS scripts that can be used to manage printers and print operations in all Windows versions, starting from Windows XP. Today…
A mandatory user profile is a special pre-configured type of roaming user profile than can be changed only by administrators. Users who have been assigned a mandatory profile can work…