Due to the recent release of the new Windows Server 2022, it’s time to update the KMS activation infrastructure in your domain and add the support of new versions of Windows Server and Windows 11. In this article, we will look at installing the Volume Activation Services role on Windows Server, configuring and activating a KMS server using a KMS Host Key.
In this article, we will show what to do if you see a black screen instead of a desktop when you connect to a remote Windows host via RDP. This…
Quite often an administrator needs to quickly find out the username logged on a remote Windows computer. In this article, we’ll show some tools and PowerShell scripts that can help…
In this article, we’ll show several ways to check the license type and activation status of Microsoft Office 2022/2019/2016 and Office 365 copies on Windows computers. We’ll discuss how to…
Fine-Grained Password Policies (FGPP) allow you to create multiple password policies for specific users or groups. Multiple password policies are available starting with the Windows Server 2008 version of Active…
Modern Authentication is enabled by default for all new Microsoft 365/Azure tenants. This authentication protocol is more secure than the legacy Basic Authentication. Microsoft plans to completely block the use…
You can use Active Directory to securely store backups of BitLocker recovery keys (passwords) from client computers. It is very convenient if you have multiple users using BitLocker to encrypt…
Recently I’ve faced a quite interesting problem when some users are unable to authenticate on some domain services due to exceeding the maximum size of the Kerberos ticket. In this…
If you accidentally deleted or replaced one or more system fonts in Windows, you can try to restore the default fonts. The issue of missing fonts can appear as follows:…
Active Directory is a reliable, but complex and critical service, and the operability of the whole enterprise network depends on it. A system administrator should constantly check if Active Directory…