You can use the Get-ADDomainController PowerShell cmdlet to get information about the domain controllers in Active Directory. This cmdlet is a part of PowerShell Active Directory module and requires RSAT installation (onWindows 10 1809 and newer RSAT is installed in a different way).
A user reported a missing Mail app icon in the Control Panel on a computer running Windows 10 1903. Office 365 is installed on the computer, and Outlook is used…
A Windows administrator can use the good old Dnscmd cli tool or DNSServer module for PowerShell to manage DNS zones and records. In this article we’ll cover the basic operations…
The first thing an administrator can come across when deploying Office 2019 in an enterprise environment is that now you cannot download an Office 2019 installation ISO image via Volume…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows Server 2016
Transferring/Seizing FSMO Roles to Another Domain Controller
September 7, 2023In this article, we’ll consider how to find domain controllers with FSMO roles in Active Directory, how to transfer one or more FSMO roles to another (additional/secondary) domain controller, and…
- Active DirectoryPowerShellWindows 10
Deploy PowerShell Active Directory Module without Installing RSAT
April 15, 2020In one of the previous articles we showed how to use the Set-ADComputer cmdlet in a GPO logon script to save the current logged in user info to the properties…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2008 R2Windows Server 2012 R2Windows Server 2016
How to Run Disk Cleanup (Cleanmgr.exe) on Windows Server 2016/2012 R2/2008 R2?
June 7, 2022The Disk Cleanup tool allows the administrator to quickly clean up the Windows Server system drive by deleting unnecessary and temporary files, including cleaning the WinSxS directory from files of…
- Active DirectoryPowerShell
Set-ADComputer: How to Change AD Computer Properties and Add Logged User Info?
August 3, 2020The Set-ADComputer cmdlet allows you to change the attributes of a computer account object in Active Directory. In this article, we’ll show how to add current logged-in username and IP…
- PowerShellWindows 10
How to Block a Domain or Website on Windows Defender Firewall with PowerShell?
December 23, 2020Let’s consider some ways to block access to the specific websites, domain names, URLs or IP addresses in Windows without using third-party tools. In our case, we will try to…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
Fixing Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Error with Event ID 8193
February 5, 2020The monitoring system on one of my servers running Windows Server 2016 started sending multiple messages of the Volume Shadow Copy Service error with the Event ID 8193 and VSS…