When creating virtual machines in different hypervisors (VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.), you may see that sometimes a virtual machine may not see all virtual processor sockets (vCPU) assigned to it. In our case, 8 vCPUs were assigned to a KVM virtual machine and Windows 10 was installed on it as a guest OS. However, Windows detected these vCPUs as separate processors (not cores) and it could use only 2 of them.
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2019
How to View and Close Open Files on Windows Server
December 8, 2023A Windows file server admin can list the files that are open in a shared folder and force locked files to close. If a user opens a file in a…
On your VMWare ESXi host, you can redirect an attached local USB device/flash drive/disk inside the virtual machine. This technology is called USB Passthrough and available starting from ESXi 4.1.
- Active DirectoryPowerShell
Managing User Photos in Active Directory Using ThumbnailPhoto Attribute
March 12, 2024Active Directory user accounts have a special thumbnailPhoto attribute in which a user’s photo can be stored as binary data. Outlook, OWA, Lync/Skype for Business, SharePoint (and other apps) can…
In this article we’ll show how to solve problems that occur when a computer running Linux Ubuntu/Mint/Kali doesn’t boot or drops to a busybox prompt during the initramfs initialization. The user…
When expanding the disk size of a VMWare virtual machine or deleting a disk, sometimes it is hard to understand which VMware virtual disk matches the specific Windows VM disk.…
Using Group Policies, you can create a shortcut to a specific app on the desktops of all (or certain) domain users. GPO allows you to create a shortcut for a…
In this article we’ll show how to restore Active Directory domain controller from a System State backup created earlier (see the article Active Directory backup) and discuss the types and…
- 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…
In this article, we’ll consider a high-available failover configuration of two squid (Linux) proxy servers to access the Internet from a corporate LAN. To build a failover configuration we are…