Windows Server

In this post I will show you how to create desktop shortcut using Group Policy. An easy way to deploy or add desktop shortcuts is use a GPO and deploy it to domain users. Group Policies allow you…

Have you ever tried to boot a virtual machine running Windows OS into safe mode easily ?. Let me show you how can you start your computer into safe mode. Recently I installed the latest version of…

In this post I will cover the steps to disable Server Manager at startup using group policy. When i say disable, i mean prevent it from launching automatically at startup. In one of my post I had…

In this post I will show you the steps to find out who restart Windows Server. If you are working for a big organization, you might have lot of Windows servers in your setup. Ensuring the servers are…

Disable or Prevent Shutdown Option using Group Policy Few years ago when i was working as system admin, I was asked to apply a group policy to prevent the users from shutting down their computer. The…

create fine grained password policy using ldifde In this short post we will see how to create fine grained password policy using ldifde. LDIFDE is a utility  that enables you to import or export…

Creating Fine Grained Password Policies In this post we will see the steps for Creating Fine Grained Password Policies (FGPP). In Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory…

In this post we will see how to upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012. It's been an year that Microsoft has released Windows Server 2012, when Windows Sever 2012 was released the IT…

In this post we will see how to import employee pictures into Active Directory. There are several ways of importing the pictures into Active Directory, what i mean by importing pictures is that you…