Windows Server 2016

Every experienced Windows administrator has faced some issues with the WMI service (Windows Management Instrumentation) and its components. The problems in the WMI subsystem are critical for the normal operation…

Shadow session mode allows RDS administrators to view and interact with the user’s desktop. Remote Desktop Shadowing mode works on all modern versions of Windows starting from Windows Server 2012…

In this article, we’ll take a look at how to centrally configure proxy settings on Windows 10 computers in a domain using Group Policy. Most popular browsers (such as Microsoft…

Let’s consider one more common Windows 10 boot error that occurs due to the damaged or missing winload.efi file. The problem manifests itself in the following: Windows stops booting with…

In this article we’ll show how to configure ICMP-based network device monitoring using ping in Zabbix. It is the easiest and the most popular task of agentless monitoring, when you…

In this article we’ll show you how to restrict network data transfer rate to/from Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 using built-in and third-party tools. You may know that Windows…

When icons of different applications and file types are displayed in File Explorer, Windows instead of accessing the original files with icons gets copies of the icon images from special…

iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System) is an SCSI protocol that allows to access storage devices over the IP protocol. Using iSCSI, you can connect your server to a shared network…

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…

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…