You can install an SMTP server using built-in tools in all versions of Windows Server. This SMTP server can work as a mail relay service that should receive and send…
In this article, we’ll look on licensing features of the Windows Server 2019, 2016 and 2012 R2 operating systems from the point of view of new Microsoft licensing model. Also,…
WMI filters in Group Policy (GPO) allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. A WMI filter is a set of WMI queries (the WMI…
In some cases an administrator needs to configure multiple IP addresses one a single network interface (NIC) in Windows. An example of such situations can be the need to run…
The FTP protocol is one of the oldest protocols (it is more than 40 years old), but it is still widely used where a simple file transfer protocol is required.…
Sometimes it happens that the security updates for Microsoft products (released under MS Patch Tuesday) cause problems with the OS or third-party software. The issues caused by the updates can…
In the previous article, we looked at the old-school VBS scripts that can be used to manage printers and print operations in all Windows versions, starting from Windows XP. Today…
Access-based Enumeration (ABE) allows to hide objects (files and folders) from users who don’t have NTFS permissions (Read or List) on a network shared folder in order to access them.…
A web-server Internet Information Service in Windows 2016 / 2012 / R2, like previous IIS versions, can be managed remotely. In fact, it is convenient enough to manage multiple IIS…
I have come across an interesting “feature” or “bug” in Windows Update service on Windows Server 2016 (Windows 10 RTM). If you’re not using an internal WSUS server and your…