Are Windows Event Logs displaying local time or UTC? There’s a trap!
Is Local time or UTC used in Windows Event Log. Both, it depends where
Windows OS
Length of a SQL Server instance name
What is the length of a SQL Server instance name, the invalid characters, and also for a Windows machine machine
WMI filters to target sites and non Domain Controllers
Designing Group Policy Objects is sometimes tricky. Let’s review some useful WMI filters in Group Policy Objects for sites and domain controllers inclusion or exclusion. When linking Group Policy Objects, you are always bound to the LSDOU rule, which means that GPOs are processed in the following order: L for […]
How to connect to a Windows Internal Database WID such as WSUS
The Windows Internal Database is nothing more than an embedded lite SQL Server instance running under specific credentials and with a few protocols enabled. Therefore in order to connect, you can use any SQL Server client tool: SQL Server Management Studio, SQLCMD, … Starting with Windows Server 2012, the named […]
Windows updates history list
Here are the links to the KB articles listing the security and monthly updates for every Windows Server OS: Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019
Installing the WebDav client on Windows Server 2016
As many remote storage solutions now provide a WebDav access (from Sharepoint to Nextcloud), having the ability to natively upload and download files from a WebDav Server on Windows Server 2016 may be useful. As opposed to the previous versions, you do not need to install the Desktop Experience feature […]
Start Stop service rights to non administrators
LIke any other object in the Windows world, services are objects, you can therefore give users rights on them. Let’s see for example how to allow start stop service rights to non-administrators. In order to change the permissions to a service, you’ll need an account who has rights to change […]
Install Flash Player on Windows Server 2016
When you’re dealing with some legacy software, such as the vSphere web client version 5.x and you’re accessing it from a Windows Server OS, You may need to install Flash Player on Windows Server 2016 for Internet Explorer. If you run a search through Google, Bing, or Qwant, you may […]
Enable RDP with Powershell 1
Although the Remote Management is enabled by default starting with Windows Server 2012, the RDP access isn’t. To enable RDP with Powershell, you have two steps to perform: Enable the RDP Access Enable the inbound firewall rules Here’s the code:
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# 1. Enable Remote Desktop (Get-WmiObject Win32_TerminalServiceSetting -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices).SetAllowTsConnections(1,1) (Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_TSGeneralSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices -Filter "TerminalName='RDP-tcp'").SetUserAuthenticationRequired(0) # 2. Enable the firewall rule Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Remote Desktop" |
The second line allows you to specify if you […]
Changing the System Regional settings after installation using the command-line
Usually you set up the regional settings at installation time by using localized OS Version or unattended.xml. However sometimes you discover after installation that some script from your customer run under the system context needs different settings. In this case changing the system regional settings after installation using the command-line […]