SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a classic protocol for monitoring and collecting information about network devices (servers, network hardware, workstations, printers, etc.). SNMP is quite a lightweight and fast…
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC or DSA.msc) is one of the most commonly used tools for managing objects in an Active Directory domain. You can install ADUC on both…
Several times in Windows 10 I noticed a strange bug when extra languages appear in the list of keyboard layouts of the language bar. For example, I had 2 languages…
Microsoft has decided to add a built-in Microsoft Teams Chat client to Windows 11, and its icon is shown in the taskbar by default. If you don’t use Microsoft Teams,…
I have received several emails from readers asking for help in resolving the problem of displaying computers in a network environment on the latest Windows 10 and 11 builds. Indeed, there…
Windows has a built-in feature that automatically restarts the operating system in the event of a system failure. This option is enabled by default and allows Windows to automatically restart…
NIC Teaming (or Load Balancing/Failover – LBFO, or NIC bonding) allows joining multiple physical network adapters (NICs) into a single logical network card. In this article, we’ll show how to…
Microsoft released a set of hardware requirements to install Windows 11 on a device. In particular, your computer must have a built-in TPM module (chip), a pretty modern CPU, UEFI…
The open source VLMCSD project on GitHub (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd) allows you to run a Microsoft KMS activation server emulator on platforms other than Windows Server (including Linux, Android, FreeBSD, macOS, and…
Microsoft releases new security updates for its products at least once a month. In most cases, the Windows Update service does a great job of automatically getting and installing updates…