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…
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Repairing the Domain Trust Relationship Between Workstation and Active Directory
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…
How to Shadow (Remote Control) a User’s RDP session on Windows Server RDS
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…
Managing Administrative Shares (Admin$, IPC$, C$) on Windows
Windows administrative shared folders are used for remote access and computer management. By default, the following administrative shares are created by Windows:
Using TSADMIN.msc and TSCONFIG.msc Snap-Ins on Windows Server RDS Hosts
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…
Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472): Critical Active Directory Vulnerability
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…
Reduce Large Windows.edb (Windows.db) File Size
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,…
How to Enable or Disable SMB 1.0 in Windows 10/11 and Windows Server
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…
How to Install Only Specific Apps in Office 2021/2019 or Office 365
When you install Microsoft Office 2021, 2019, 2016. or Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (ex-Office 365), you cannot choose to install individual Office apps, change a path to the installation…