Unlike VMWare, Hyper-V has not got a built-in feature to clone virtual machines (cloning is available only in Virtual Machine Manager). To create a full copy of an existing VM,…
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…
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…
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…
You can use Managed Service Accounts (MSA) to securely run services, applications, and scheduler tasks on servers and workstations in an Active Directory domain. The MSA is a special type…
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,…
Windows automatically creates a hidden System Volume Information directory in the root of each connected NTFS drive (whether a local HDD/SSD drive or a removable USB drive). The size of…
Information security best practices require the computer screen to be locked when the user is inactive (idle) for some time. A Windows user can lock the computer screen themselves (using…