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Guide to install Windows 11 without an Internet connection. This way you can set up the PC with a local user account, no need for a cloud registration ... [Read More]

Installation guide to deploy Windows 11 on not supported hardware. Bypass CPU, TPM checks ... [Read More]

Set up automatic shadow copies on Windows 10 and 11 ... [Read More]

I show you an easy way of wiping a disk using only built-in tools on a Windows computer ... [Read More]

Are you having troubles querying members of large AD groups? Here's a little trick how to get them ultra fast! ... [Read More]

An easy way to get the UserPrincipalName of the logged on user for scripts and automation tasks ... [Read More]

A step-by-step guide to reanimate deleted Active Directory objects from their tombstone. This is the only method if Active Directory Recycle Bin is not activated in the domain ... [Read More]

Query deleted AD accounts or get a list of all removed AD users with PowerShell ... [Read More]

Do you have an older computer, with a traditional HDD on the slow side? Is that computer running the drive with 100% utilization, and the response time is super high, possibly 1000-5000ms? You might have tried to disable the Windows ... [Read More]

In a Windows domain it's very simple to check what users are currently logged in on a server or client computer, and remotely leg them out if their session is frozen or they simply need to be logged out ... [Read More]

The following GetADGroup function will help to display all users who are a member of an AD or distribution group, no matter how deep they are located in nested structures ... [Read More]

If you read this article it's very likely you are having issues with a FSMO role master server. Let's jump right into the FSMO role seizing process ... [Read More]

You can transfer any FSMO roles with the Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole command. See how ... [Read More]

In our earlier article we went through the history and the ins and outs of the FSMO roles. But how do we know if a FSMO server fails and cannot fulfil it's role? ... [Read More]

What is Active Directory? What is a Domain Controller? What are the FSMO roles and what are they exist and what happends when they fail? We seek answers to all these questions in this article ... [Read More]

In this lab we take a look at triggering instant replication of both AD objects and their special subset: DNS zones ... [Read More]

After abandoning the 8.3 file name limitation (pre-Win95 all files had a max name length of 8 characters, and a 3-char long extension), the Windows Win32 API allowed whole file paths to be as long as 260 characters long. However, ... [Read More]

Have you ever bought a brand new SSD with 256GB on it's label, then when connecting it to a computer the storage space of only 240GB was showing? Were you taught in school that a 'kilobyte' is actually 1024 bytes, ... [Read More]

The quick way to get a user's SID or identify a SID if the username is unknown. First we use the command line to retrieve the reqested values, then a custom PowerShell function that can be used to get any ... [Read More]

Quick Cleanup List When disk is almost full there here is a quick list I usually go through to recover some free space:

1. Delete files from c:\windows\temp
2. Download and run TreeSize to see what uses up ... [Read More]

The task for today is to join a Microsoft Active Directory domain with our CentOS box. We use the sssd package to accomplish this, first we start with a basic CentOS installation, we go through the initial setup, then the ... [Read More]

I'm sure you have faced a situation at some point when you needed to RDP in to a client machine but without any luck. That is because the computer must have not had the RDP connections enabled. Even though the ... [Read More]