User accounts in Active Directory have various attributes, among which there are two interesting and critical attributes: samAccountName and UserPrincipalName (usually it is called UPN), the differences between which are not understood by many …
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Windows drivers are not something a regular PC user cares about. One might start thinking about drivers only when games stop working (or working poorly) or when they need to …
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Modern Windows versions, such as 11, 10, 8.1, and 8, have three weird files stored on drive C. Those files are pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys, and swapfile.sys. All three files are notably …
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A terminal, shell, or CLI rendered on the web is useful when managing resources in the cloud. One example is the Cloud Shell in the Google Cloud console. However, we …
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Did your users receive a phishing or spam blast? You have to act quickly and prevent the users from reading or clicking links on those emails to avoid potential damage …
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Modern Windows 10 and 11 versions have plenty of various hotkeys that automate tasks and allow doing things much faster. However, for some reason, there is no hotkey for switching …
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PST or Outlook Archive files allow storing various data from Outlook in separate files. You can create a new Outlook PST file by clicking an arrow-down button next to the …
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Organizations typically do not use their production email infrastructure to send non-user emails to the internet. For example, a company may send a weekly or monthly newsletter to partners, send …
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WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) provides a special interface in Windows used to manage the local or remote operating systems. WMI provides access to any operating system settings, hardware, system services, …
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Windows Registry is a massive jungle of various parameters and settings the operating system users to define its settings and ensure everything works as it should. It is a very …