In this article we will show how to update Group Policy (GPO) settings on Windows computers in an Active Directory domain: how to update (refresh) Group Policies automatically, how to use the GPUpdate
command, how to update them remotely using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC.msc
) or the Invoke-GPUpdate
PowerShell cmdlet.
- Windows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2019
Managing Administrative Shares (Admin$, IPC$, C$) on Windows
March 15, 2024Windows administrative shared folders are used for remote access and computer management. By default, the following administrative shares are created by Windows:
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
Fixing “Winload.efi is Missing or Contains Errors” in Windows 10
March 16, 2024Let’s consider one more common Windows 10 boot error that occurs due to the damaged or missing winload.efi file. The problem manifests itself in the following: Windows stops booting with…
In this article we’ll show how to configure ICMP-based network device monitoring using ping in Zabbix. It is the easiest and the most popular task of agentless monitoring, when you…
- Windows Server 2019
Using TSADMIN.msc and TSCONFIG.msc Snap-Ins on Windows Server RDS Hosts
March 11, 2024Many administrators of Windows terminal servers noticed that starting from Windows Server 2012, the management snap-ins tsadmin.msc (Remote Desktop Services Manager) and tsconfig.msc (Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration) are missing…
- Active DirectoryPowerShell
How to Find Inactive Computers and Users in Active Directory with PowerShell
March 11, 2024Quite an often task of an Active Directory administrator is to make a list of disabled or inactive user and/or computer accounts. You can use both saved LDAP queries in…
In this article we’ll show you how to restrict network data transfer rate to/from Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 using built-in and third-party tools. You may know that Windows…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Rebuild (Reset) a Corrupted Icon Cache on Windows 10?
May 13, 2024When icons of different applications and file types are displayed in File Explorer, Windows instead of accessing the original files with icons gets copies of the icon images from special…
- Windows Server 2016Windows Server 2019
How to Configure and Connect an iSCSI Disk on Windows Server
March 15, 2024iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System) is an SCSI protocol that allows to access storage devices over the IP protocol. Using iSCSI, you can connect your server to a shared network…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesPowerShell
Checking User Logon History in Active Directory Domain with PowerShell
February 27, 2023There are several different tools to get information about the time of a user logon to an Active Directory domain. The time of the last successful user authentication in an…