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…
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…
When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that another program (process) already occupied (listening) the port you want to use. This article will show you…
When started, some programs require permission elevation (the shield next to the app icon), but actually, they don’t need administrator privileges for their normal operation. For example, you can manually…
In Windows, you can manage the settings for your network adapters not only from the GUI but also from the PowerShell command prompt. In this article, we’ll look at the…
You can use the open-source usbipd-win project to access a computer’s physical USB devices from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or Hyper-V virtual machine. This tool allows you to…
In some cases, users cannot sign to RDS farm hosts running Windows Server using the built-in RDP client (mstsc.exe) with the following error: The task you are trying to do…
You can use the built-in Send-MailMessage cmdlet to send SMTP e-mails from PowerShell (previously you can use the .Net System.Net.Mail class to send e-mail messages). Send-MailMessage allows you to send…
A time synchronization error may occur in Windows when your computer fails to automatically synchronize its local time with the time.microsoft.com time servers on the Internet. If your computer’s time…