In 2024, Microsoft announced plans to phase out support for VBScript, a formerly popular Windows scripting language. VBScript scripts remain popular for automation and system management because they are simple,…
In addition to installing app packages from the repository, you can use the WinGet package manager for declarative Windows environment configuration. The idea is that the administrator creates a declarative…
SMB over QUIC is a new feature available on Windows Server 2025 that allows you to configure secure access to a Windows file share over the Internet without using a…
One of the Windows Server virtual machines has started shutting down automatically every hour without any apparent reason. This behavior typically occurs when an Evaluation edition of Windows is installed…
A common issue with terminal servers hosting multiple users is that a single user can start a resource-intensive process, which negatively impacts the performance of other users’ sessions. For example,…
The Credential Guard security feature in the latest versions of Windows protects accounts against theft and unauthorized use, including Pass-the-Hash and Pass-the-Ticket attacks. Credential Guard uses virtualization-based security (VBS) to…
On domain controllers running Windows Server 2025, an issue occurs where the server incorrectly identifies the network as Public instead of Domain after a reboot. If some of your Windows…
As part of phasing out insecure protocols, Microsoft has removed support for the deprecated NTLMv1 authentication protocol starting with Windows 11 version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025, encouraging the use…
The simplest way to schedule regular reboots or shutdowns of a Windows computer (or server) is to create a job in Task Scheduler.
With the release of Proxmox VE 8.4, users gained the ability to create host-level shared directories, allowing direct access host files from virtual machines (similar to shared folders in VMware…