Windows Server

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…

In this post we will look at steps to configure shutdown event tracker on local computer. When you install Windows 7 OS, shutdown event tracker is not enabled by default. The Shutdown Event Tracker is…

In this post I will show you the steps to modify the Group Policy refresh interval for windows computers. By default the GP refresh interval is 90 minutes. This steps covered in this post is…

The post details the steps to configure Group Policy for LAPS. This is the third and final post that covers the group policy configuration of LAPS. In this post we will modify some of the group…

This post covers the steps to configure Active Directory for LAPS. In short we will prepare our Active Directory for implementing LAPS. In my previous post, we saw how to install and deploy…

In this post we will see how to install and deploy the Microsoft LAPS software. The Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) provides management of local account passwords of domain joined…

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…

In this post we will see how to set Internet Explorer home page via GPO. There are various ways to set a home page in internet explorer. We will looking at the most simplest and easiest way to do…

Before you deploy any software it is good to know windows operating system version numbers. To determine the version of the operating system that is currently running, you can use version helper…

If you are asked to deploy to a specific wallpaper in your organization, then group policy will be one of your choice. Note that there are many other ways to deploy wallpaper. In this post we will see…