For testing purposes or as a simple stub at the service deployment stage, I regularly need to run a simple web server on Windows. To avoid a full-featured IIS installation,…
Windows Server 2019: Installation and Configuration Tutorials
Updating PowerShell Version on Windows
This article describes how to update Windows PowerShell to the latest version 5.1 and how to install (upgrade) PowerShell Core 7.3. There are currently two branches of PowerShell: The classic…
0x80244010 Exceeded Max Server Round Trips: Windows Update Error
After deploying a new WSUS server on our corporate network, many Windows clients were unable to receive updates from the server with the error 0x80244010. It turns out that this…
Find Out Which Process is Listening on a Specific Port on Windows
When starting a new service or app on Windows, you may find that another program (process) already occupied (listening) the port you want to use. This article will show you…
You can use the Import-CSV PowerShell cmdlet to read the contents of a CSV file. Once you load the contents of the CSV file, you get a PowerShell object in…
How to Run Program without Admin Privileges and Bypass UAC Prompt
When started, some programs require permission elevation (the shield next to the app icon), but actually, they don’t need administrator privileges for their normal operation. For example, you can manually…
Configure Network Settings on Windows with PowerShell: IP Address, DNS, Default Gateway, Static Routes
In Windows, you can manage the settings for your network adapters not only from the GUI but also from the PowerShell command prompt. In this article, we’ll look at the…
Fix: Remote Desktop Services Is Currently Busy
In some cases, users cannot sign to RDS farm hosts running Windows Server using the built-in RDP client (mstsc.exe) with the following error: The task you are trying to do…
Send-MailMessage: Sending E-mails with PowerShell
You can use the built-in Send-MailMessage cmdlet to send SMTP e-mails from PowerShell (previously you can use the .Net System.Net.Mail class to send e-mail messages). Send-MailMessage allows you to send…
Clear Cache and Temp Files in User Profiles on Windows (RDS) with PowerShell and GPO
Windows Server RDS farm administrators are often faced with the problem of running out of space on a system drive due to a large amount of user data. This article…