In some cases, the administrator needs to find out which process (program) or user has changed the NTFS permissions on a specific folder or file on a Windows file server.…

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…

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…

There was a task to organize mailings in accordance with the list of user e-mails in an Excel spreadsheet. Each e-mail message should contain some data specific to each user…

An Exchange mailbox can be assigned a number of additional SMTP addresses, which are known as proxy addresses (aliases). These addresses allow the user to receive e-mails that are sent…

When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that the port you want to use is already occupied (listening) by another program (process). This article will…