The Windows Error Reporting service (WER) is used to collect the debug information about system and third-party app failures and send error reports to Microsoft servers. This information should be analyzed by MSFT and if there is a solution, it will be sent to a user through Windows Error Reporting Response. Actually, few people use this feature, although Microsoft always leaves the WER service enabled by default in the latest Windows versions. In most cases, people remember about WER when they see that C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\ occupies much space on the system drive (up to several dozens of GB) even though NTFS compression is enabled for this directory by default.
- VirtualizationVMWareWindows 10
Adding a Sound Card to a Virtual Machine on VMWare ESXi
March 15, 2024By default, there are no sound devices in VMWare ESXi virtual machines. If you want to get sound from a guest Windows VM, it is easier to use the RDP…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Time-Based (Temporary) Group Membership in Active Directory
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- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
Dumping User Passwords from Windows Memory with Mimikatz
March 16, 2024In this article, written as a part of a series devoted to Windows security, we will learn quite a simple method for getting passwords of all active Windows users using…
- PowerShellWindows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
Setting Remote Desktop Drain Mode on a Windows Server RDS Host
October 3, 2022You can use RDS Drain Mode to maintain terminal hosts in a Remote Desktop Services farm. If you enable Drain Mode for your RDS server, you can prevent the server…
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used to get information about the current status of servers, network equipment, printers or other IP devices. You can get different metrics through SNMP:…
- Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Set, Copy, Export or Restore NTFS Permissions Using iCACLS?
March 15, 2024You can use the built-in iCACLS tool to manage NTFS permissions on Windows. The icacls.exe command line tool allows you to get or change Access Control Lists (ACLs) for files…
In this article we will show how to reset the administrator password on the HPE server management board — Integrated Lights-Out (ILO). This guide is based on iLO v4, but…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019Windows Server 2022
Using Managed Service Accounts (MSA and gMSA) in Active Directory
March 16, 2024You can use Managed Service Accounts (MSA) to securely run services, applications, and scheduler tasks on servers and workstations in an Active Directory domain. The MSA is a special type…
Quite often users and administrators ask if they can upgrade a lower Windows 10 edition (like Home or Pro) to a higher one (for example, Pro or Enterprise respectively). In…