Windows Server 2016

Windows Defender Antivirus is Microsoft’s free built-in antivirus that comes installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and 2019 (since Windows 10 2004 the name Microsoft Defender is used). In…

In this article, we will show you how to check the free disk space and disk usage on a local or remote Windows host using PowerShell. Also, consider how to…

The Windows Error Reporting service (WER) is used to collect the debug information about system and third-party app failures and send error reports to Microsoft servers. This information should be…

The version of Active Directory in Windows Server 2016 introduces an interesting feature that allows you to temporarily add a user to an AD security group. This feature is called…

This article, part of a Windows security series, explains a simple method to dump the passwords of all active Windows users using the Mimikatz tool.

You can use RDS Drain Mode to maintain terminal hosts in a Remote Desktop Services farm. If you enable Drain Mode for your RDS server, you can prevent the server…

You can use the built-in iCACLS tool to manage NTFS permissions on Windows. The icacls.exe command line tool allows you to get or change Access Control Lists (ACLs) for files…

In this article we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but…

File Explorer process always runs with minimal (non-elevated) privileges in Windows. Even if you click the C:\Windows\explorer.exe executable file and try to start it in the ‘Run as administrator’ mode,…

Many Linux services (apache, nginx, etc.) can use keytab files for Kerberos authentication in Active Directory without entering a password. The keytab file keeps the names of Kerberos principals and…