For your Windows device to display the correct time, the time zone set on the device must match the geographical location of your computer. This article explains how to set…
Microsoft invites everyone to explore the features of the Windows Server platform with the StandardEvaluation or DatacenterEvaluation trial editions. You can download an ISO or VHD image with the free…
The Remote Desktop Licensing server is used to issue and track RDS client terminal access licenses (CALs). Microsoft’s licensing policy requires all users or devices connecting to desktop sessions on…
You can use Managed Service Accounts (MSA) to securely run services, applications, and scheduler tasks on servers and workstations in an Active Directory domain. The MSA is a special type…
File Explorer process always runs with minimal (non-elevated) privileges in Windows. Even if you click the C:\Windows\explorer.exe executable file and try to start it in the ‘Run as administrator’ mode,…
When you install an IIS (Internet Information Services) web server on Windows, an empty “Default Web Site” is created, listening on the default HTTP port 80. In this article, we…
Shared network folders from file servers can be made available to domain users as network drives using Group Policy. GPO allows configuring flexible rules to automatically map network drives based…
The latest versions of Windows support the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol, which allows domain name resolution (DNS queries) to be performed over an encrypted HTTPS connection. In this article,…
The digital signature of a PowerShell script (*.PS1 file) allows you to verify that a known trusted publisher signs the script and that its code has not been modified. The…
To apply new local or domain Group Policy (GPO) settings to a Windows computer, the Group Policy Client (gpsvc) service must read the policy files and apply the setting to…