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Manage your Windows VMs in Azure with Windows Admin Center
This guide explains how to enable and use Windows Admin Center in Microsoft Azure to manage several Windows Server VMs by installing the extension and connecting using a webbased interface.
Fixing CVE-2026-41089 on Windows Server
Microsoft released security updates for multiple Windows Server versions to address CVE-2026-41089. This vulnerability is rated as important and affects all supported Windows Server versions, including ESU editions of Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. This vulnerability affects the Windows Netlogon service, a core component used...
Group Policy Central Store and Active Directory
In this guide, I will show how to create a Group Policy Central Store inside SYSVOL, how ADMX and ADML files work, and how to add new Administrative Templates to your Active Directory environment.
Remove Roaming Profile folders with PowerShell (force)
This guide uses and describes a PowerShell script that removes a roaming profile folder by taking ownership, fixing permissions and attributes, and using a robocopy fallback if delete fails due to several possible reasons.
Active Directory FSMO roles
Active Directory Domain Controllers are assigned 5 different FSMO roles, which all have their own function. We can separate them over multiple servers to create more redundancy, but make sure to handle those all as servers. All roles neeed a 24/7 uptime for your environment to...
Managing Hyper-V server without Active Directory
When you use Hyper-V server, you want to manage this with the management tools. However, by default Hyper-V only allows connections...
How to repair faulty Windows in 5 steps
Repair broken or unstable Windows installations using DISM, SFC, CHKDSK, Windows Update reset actions and recovery options.
Migrate Group Policies to a new server or domain like a pro
Once in a while, we as IT administrators need to migrate our Group Policies of Windows Server to another server. Sometimes to...
Windows Server Backup Retention
This page explains a simple script/task to have backup retention for Windows Server Backup.
Change Evaluation version to Standard/Datacenter version
When you install a fresh Windows Server Evaluation installation from a .iso file, it will be installing the OS as a Evaluation version...