Many administrators usually use the netstat console tool or graphic TCPView to display information about active TCP/IP connections and open TCP ports in Windows. Instead of netstat, you can use…

Let’s learn how to use PowerShell in order to check if a specific application or process is running; how to restart it automatically in case of a crash, if a…

When you trying to run an exe, msi, bat, cmd or other executable type of files from a local drive or network folder in Windows, you can see this warning:…

Windows Defender Antivirus is Microsoft’s free built-in antivirus that comes installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and 2019 (since Windows 10 2004 the name Microsoft Defender is used). In…

The Server Message Block (SMB) network protocol is used to share and access folders, files, printers, and other devices over network (TCP port 445). In this article, we will look…

In this article we will show you how to check the free disk space and disk usage on a local or remote Windows host using PowerShell. Also, consider how to…

The Windows Error Reporting service (WER) is used to collect the debug information about system and third-party app failures and send error reports to Microsoft servers. This information should be…

The version of Active Directory in Windows Server 2016 introduces an interesting feature that allows you to temporarily add a user to an AD security group. This feature is called…

PowerShell has a lot of features to manage processes on a local or a remote computer. Using PowerShell, you can get a list of running processes, suspend a hung-up process,…

In this article, written as a part of a series devoted to Windows security, we will learn quite a simple method for getting passwords of all active Windows users using…