There is an interesting open-source project on GitHub called vlmcsd (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd) to emulate Microsoft’s KMS activation server. You can use it to deploy your own KMS server on platforms other…
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…
In this article, we’ll look at how to backup websites, application pools, and IIS web server configuration on Windows Server. You can use an Internet Information Services backup to restore…
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…
In this article, we’ll look at how to delegate administrative permissions in the Active Directory domain. Delegation allows you to grant the permissions to perform some AD management tasks to…
Microsoft releases new security updates for its products at least once a month. In most cases, the Windows Update service does an excellent job of downloading and installing Windows updates…
Our users are complaining about very slow network performance when opening or saving files to a network shared folder in Windows. When a user opens a shared folder via a…
If the Windows Update service is not working properly, updates are not downloaded or installed, then the easiest and most effective way to solve the problem with the Windows Update…
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,…