You can use Group Policies (GPOs) to install and connect shared printers to specific users, computers, and groups in an Active Directory domain. In this article, we’ll look at how…

When connecting to a new network, Windows prompts you to select its network profile type (network location): Public or Private. Windows network profiles are part of Windows Defender Firewall with…

The built-in SMBShare PowerShell module allows you to create, configure and manage shared network folders in Windows. In this article, we will look at how to manage file shares (SMB…

You can simplify the deployment of the operating system on typical workstations (servers) if you add all the necessary drivers to the Drive Store of your Windows install image. In…

When a user closes the RDP/RDS session window in a terminal client (mstsc.exe, RDCMan or Remote Desktop HTML5 web client) by simply clicking the cross in the top right corner…

If your company has several system administrators, sometimes you may want to know who rebooted the server. In this article. I will show you how to identify a user who…

For one of the projects, I needed a PowerShell script to find duplicate files in the shared network folder of a file server. There are a number of third-party tools…

PostgreSQL is a free object-relational database management system able to compete with proprietary databases, like Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle. PostgreSQL supports user data, functions, operations, domains, and indexes. In…

A symbolic link (symlink) is a special file on a file system that doesn’t contain any data but is actually a shortcut pointing to another object (file or folder). When…

The Microsoft Defender Firewall is built into all modern versions of Windows and Windows Server and allows you to configure rules for filtering incoming and/or outgoing network traffic on your…