In Windows 10 1903/1909 I have found several strange bugs related to configured VPN connections. The first problem: when trying to connect to a remote VPN L2TP server, a VPN…
Windows 10
- Group PoliciesWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Securing RDP Connections with Trusted SSL/TLS Certificates
August 27, 2020In this article we’ll show how to use trusted SSL/TLS certificates to secure RDP connections to Windows computers or servers in an Active Directory domain. We will use trusted SSL…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to View and Close Open Files in Windows Server SMB Share?
October 20, 2022Windows file server administrators often have to force close the shared files that are open simultaneously by multiple users. This usually happens if the desktop software doesn’t work as expected,…
- Active DirectoryWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Unable to Access SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders from Windows 10
May 10, 2023I noticed some strange things when trying to access SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders in the domain from Windows 10/Windows Server 2016. When I tried to access the domain by the…
The built-in Windows Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) client (mstsc.exe) saves the remote computer name (or IP address) and the username that is used to login after each successful connection to…
Mbr2gpt.exe is a new built-in Windows 10 console tool that allows you to convert a disk with the MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table to a GPT (GUID Partition Table)…
The setup.exe installer in a Windows 10 install image has quite a large number of the command-line parameters that administrators may be interested in to automate and manage a Windows…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
RDP Brute Force Protection with PowerShell and Windows Firewall Rules
May 10, 2023I have had an idea to write a simple PowerShell script to automatically block (blacklist) IP addresses, on which RDP brute-force attempts or continuous RDP attacks are detected, in Windows…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2
An Internal Error has Occurred: Remote Desktop Connection Error
May 13, 2020I saw a strange message “An internal error has occurred” when trying to connect from Windows 10 to a recently deployed RDSH server running Windows Server 2012 R2 using RDP.…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2019
Fix: Network Printer Goes Offline on Windows
February 20, 2023From time to time we notice that some connected network printers go offline, stop printing and print jobs begin to queue on the print servers running Windows Server. In this…