Windows Server
All pages referring or tutorials for Windows Server.
Fixing CVE-2026-41089 on Windows Server
Sunday, May 17, 2026 in Windows Server
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5 minute read
How would an attacker be able to use this? An attacker would send specially crafted Netlogon requests to a vulnerable server. By manipulating the way the Netlogon service processes these requests, the attacker may be able to trigger remote code …
Active Directory FSMO roles
Tuesday, February 04, 2025 in Windows Server
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4 minute read
What are the FSMO roles of Active Directory? FSMO stands for Flexible Single Master Operations. Active Directory is normally multi-master, meaning changes can be made on any domain controller. However, some operations must be handled by one specific …
Managing Hyper-V server without Active Directory
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 in Windows Server
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4 minute read
When you use Hyper-V server, you want to manage this with the management tools. However, by default Hyper-V only allows connections from domain-joined machines by design because of security and trust reasons. We can bypass this requirement by …
Solved: August 2024 updates breaks GPO Item level targeting - user in group
Monday, September 09, 2024 in Windows Server
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3 minute read
If you are managing Windows Servers, Group Policies are a great way to distribute settings to your endpoints. However, a recent update of August 2024 in Windows Server 2022 and 2019 breaks user filtering in Group Policy (GPO) Item Level Targeting The …
Migrate Group Policies to a new server or domain like a pro
Wednesday, August 07, 2024 in Windows Server
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3 minute read
Once in a while, we as IT administrators need to export and import our Group Policies of Windows Server to another server. Sometimes to copy a great policy you’ve built, or to migrate a customer to a new server. By default, the only option …
Windows Server Backup Retention
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in Windows Server
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2 minute read
For more information about the wbadmin tool, see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/wbadmin The Script With this small script based on wbadmin we can remove old backups while keeping the last 30 items …
Change Evaluation version to Standard/Datacenter version
Wednesday, May 03, 2023 in Windows Server
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2 minute read
When you install a fresh Windows Server installation from a .iso file, it will be installing the OS as a Evaluation version. When you want to activate the installation with a key you need to rebuild the OS and set the edition to Standard. Microsoft …