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,…
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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…
How to Enable and Configure MPIO on Windows Server
In this article we will consider how to install and configure MPIO on Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. MPIO (Multi—Path Input Output) is a technology that allows to build fault-tolerant transport to a data storage system…
How to Connect L2TP/IPSec VPN Server From Windows
In this article, we will look at the most common causes of errors when connecting to an L2TP/IPSec VPN server from Windows 10/11 or Windows Server 2019/2016. If you cannot…
Unable to Add/Remove Role: Windows Server Requires Restart
When installing any role or feature on Windows Server 2016, an error appears that the server requires a restart: “The request to add or remove features on the specified server…
How to View and Close Open Files on Windows Server
A Windows file server admin can list the files that are open in a shared folder and force locked files to close. If a user opens a file in a…
How to View and Clear RDP Connections History in Windows
The built-in Windows Remote Desktop Connection client (mstsc.exe) saves the remote computer name (or IP address) and the username that is used to log in after each successful connection to…
KVM: How to Expand or Shrink a Virtual Machine Disk Size?
In this article we’ll talk about how to resize KVM virtual machine disks for popular disk types. We’ll show how to correctly increase a virtual machine disk size in the…
Protecting Remote Desktop (RDP) Host from Brute Force Attacks
Any Windows host directly connected to the Internet with an open RDP port is periodically logged for remote brute-force password attempts. To effectively protect the default Remote Desktop protocol port…