If your virtual machine running on Hyper-V is stuck for some reason, stopped responding, and doesn’t start/stop/reset after clicking the corresponding buttons in the Hyper-V Manager console, you can force-stop…

I encountered a strange problem when applying new GPO settings on one of the computers. To diagnose the problem, I updated GPO settings manually using the gpupdate /force command and…

PowerShell Remoting is a great tool that allows you to connect and run commands on remote computers via WinRM. If computers are joined to the Active Directory domain, then PSRemoting…

In this quick note, I’ll show you how to run multiple cmd or PowerShell commands in one line. Sometimes you have to do this when you invoke PowerShell commands from…

Windows Task Scheduler allows you to run tasks both on schedule and when a certain event appears in the Event Viewer (using Windows Event Triggers). In this article, we’ll show…

The Active Directory Attribute Editor is a built-in graphical tool to manage the properties of AD objects (users, computers, groups). It is the Attribute Editor where you can view and…

When you install or update device drivers in Windows, older versions of the drivers remain on the system drive. This allows the user to roll back to a previous driver…

In this article, we’ll show how to correctly remove (demote) an Active Directory domain controller on Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012R2. When removing a domain controller, usually one of the following scenarios…

If you are using untrusted/public networks to connect clients/apps to your Microsoft SQL Server database, it is recommended to use traffic encryption. Let’s see how to configure and enable mandatory…

OpenVPN is an open-source software suite that is really one of the most popular and easiest solutions for implementing a secure VPN. OpenVPN allows you to combine a server and…