A Windows administrator can use the good old Dnscmd cli tool or DNSServer module for PowerShell to manage DNS zones and records. In this article we’ll cover the basic operations…
Windows Server 2016
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2016
Transferring/Seizing FSMO Roles to Another Domain Controller
September 7, 2023In this article, we’ll consider how to find domain controllers with FSMO roles in Active Directory, how to transfer one or more FSMO roles to another (additional/secondary) domain controller, and…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Run Disk Cleanup (Cleanmgr.exe) on Windows Server 2016/2012 R2/2008 R2?
June 7, 2022The Disk Cleanup tool allows the administrator to quickly clean up the Windows Server system drive by deleting unnecessary and temporary files, including cleaning the WinSxS directory from files of…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
Fixing Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Error with Event ID 8193
February 5, 2020The monitoring system on one of my servers running Windows Server 2016 started sending multiple messages of the Volume Shadow Copy Service error with the Event ID 8193 and VSS…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
DNS Resolution via VPN Not Working on Windows 10
September 20, 2022The DNS servers and suffixes configured for VPN connections are used in Windows 10 to resolve names using DNS in the Force Tunneling mode (“Use default gateway on remote network”…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Manage NTFS Permissions with PowerShell?
January 17, 2020In order to manage access to files or folders in Windows, a special ACL (Access Control List) is assigned to an NTFS file system object (a file or a folder).…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
Fixing Windows Update and DISM Error 0x80073712 on Windows Server 2016/Windows 10
March 13, 2020I faced an error code 0x80073712 when trying to install security updates on Windows Server 2016. As I found later, this error was related to the damaged Windows component store.…
Windows has many tools for diagnosing problems in TCP/IP networks (ping, telnet, pathping, etc.). But not all of them allow you to conveniently check the status or scan opened network…
- Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Installing a Free Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL Certificate on IIS Web Server / RDS
October 26, 2022In this guide, we will show you how to install and bind a free TLS/SSL Let’s Encrypt certificate for a site on the IIS web server running on Windows Server…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
The Disk is Offline Because of Policy Set by an Administrator
June 7, 2022On one of the servers running Windows Server 2016, an additional disk (not a system one) connected as a SAN LUN over FC gets offline after each restart of the…