Miscellaneous

This guide explains how to use PowerShell to enable/disable Microsoft Defender on Windows, how to manage various settings, and scan the computer for threats and viruses. What is Microsoft Defender? …

If you want to deploy a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) on VMware ESXi virtual machines, you need to share a virtual disk (.VMDK file) between 2 (or more) virtual …

Testing the health of your local domain controller can be an extremely important task, especially when problems with Active Directory arise. Let’s look at an important tool in the toolbelt …

In this guide, we’ll show how to enable automatic startup and startup order for VMs running on a VMware ESXi or Workstation host. You can view and manage standalone host …

This article explains how to troubleshoot and fix issues that may prevent virtual machines from starting on a Windows host with the Hyper-V role installed. About Virtual Machine could not …

If you need to connect to the desktop of a remote computer, you can remotely enable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and grant yourself access permissions. In this guide, we’ll look …

To add an SMTP alias to a user in a Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online) tenant configured for Active Directory synchronization, you must add an additional SMTP address to the user’s …

Over time, log files can take up a lot of disk space, and it is essential to clear them periodically to avoid disk space issues. In this blog post, we …

Today we will talk about time synchronization best practices for virtualized AD domain controllers running on modern versions of Windows Server (including Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025). Typically, …

Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs tend to grow over time and can sometimes fill all the free space on the server drive. To avoid this, you should take regular transaction …