The password policy in an Active Directory domain specifies basic security requirements for user account passwords, such as password complexity, length, frequency of password changes, and so on. A strong…
In this article, we’ll look at several common issues related to RDS licensing, when RDP clients cannot connect to Windows Server with the Remote Desktop Services Host role installed. Licensing…
A user must enter a password for a local or Microsoft (online) account each time they log on to Windows. This allows you to restrict access to your computer. In…
If a trust relationship between a Windows workstation and an Active Directory domain is broken, the computer won’t be able to establish a secure channel with the domain controller, and…
Windows administrative shared folders are used for remote access and computer management. By default, the following administrative shares are created by Windows:
Many administrators of Windows terminal servers noticed that starting from Windows Server 2012, the management snap-ins tsadmin.msc (Remote Desktop Services Manager) and tsconfig.msc (Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration) are missing…
In August 2020, Microsoft released an update to fix a critical Windows Server vulnerability in Active Directory — CVE-2020-1472 (more known as Zerologon) . This update was successfully installed on…
The Windows.edb file (Windows.db in Windows 11) is the location of the index database for the Windows Search service. The search index allows users to quickly search for files, emails…
During a clean OS install, Windows Installer creates a special System Reserved Partition (SRP) on the MBR disk partition table. This is a hidden partition with the NTFS file system,…
The Server Message Block (SMB) 1.0 file-sharing protocol is disabled by default in the latest versions of Windows 11 and 10 and in Windows Server 2019/2022. This version of the…