Access-based Enumeration (ABE) is a shared folder option in Windows that allows to hide files and folders that users don’t have permission to access. ABE is used to hide the…
It can be difficult to track exactly who made certain changes when the Active Directory domain infrastructure is managed by multiple administrators (added or removed a user from a security…
You can use a simple PowerShell command to find out the current public IP address that your Windows computer uses to access the Internet. There are a large number of…
How to quickly estimate the current number of user connections (sessions) to the IIS sites on webserver running on Windows Server? Such information will allow to determine and predict the…
Despite the fact that the Windows XP OS support is over 4 years ago, many customers continue to use this OS, and it seems that nothing will drastically change in…
In Windows, you can attach (mount) virtual hard disk files in the VHD and VHDX formats directly from the Disk Management console. Windows administrator can mount a VHD or VHDX…
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is a new distributed data storage technology that appeared in Windows Server 2016. Due to Storage Spaces Direct, you can turn local drives of several servers…
In older Windows Server versions prior to Windows Server 2016, you could create a failover cluster only between the servers in the same Active Directory domain. The new version allows…
Most backup solutions for Windows use Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to create backup copies of the application or service data. In some cases, the VSS service or one of…
This article describes configuring Windows to boot from a hard disk with a GPT partition table on a computer with classic (non-UEFI) BIOS firmware or in Legacy BIOS mode.