Single Sign-On (SSO) allows an authenticated (signed-on) user to access other domain services without having to re-authenticate (re-entering a password) and without using saved credentials (including RDP). SSO can be…
By default, the RDP access to the desktop of Windows Server member servers or Active Directory domain controllers are restricted to users added to the local Administrators or Domain Admins…
You can use the built-in PowerShell module, Microsoft.PowerShell.LocalAccounts, to manage local users and groups in Windows. This module allows you to create or delete local users and security groups, and…
When investigating various incidents, an administrator needs to know who logged on to a particular Windows computer and when. You can get a history of user logons in a domain…
The Windows Event Log is an important tool for administrators to track errors, warnings, and other information reports that are logged by the operating system, its components, or programs. You…
Windows LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) allows you to centrally manage the passwords for the local administrators on the computers in your AD domain. The current local administrator password is…
In order to ensure that the Windows image that you deploy to computers in your network always has the latest security updates, you can add new update packages to your…
In this article, we will look at two ways to organize conditional name resolution in a DNS server on Windows Server 2016/2019/2022: DNS Conditional Forwarding and DNS Policies. These technologies…
For testing purposes or as a simple stub at the service deployment stage, I regularly need to run a simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,…
This article describes how to update Windows PowerShell to the latest version 5.1 and how to install (upgrade) PowerShell Core 7.3. There are currently two branches of PowerShell: The classic…