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Got control issues? In this tutorial, learn to disable Adobe Reader XI updates using the ever-handy Group Policy.

In pt. 2 of our series on Remote Network Access, try these steps to install and configure SSTP servers to support and implement clients’ VPN connections.

Office 365 Groups (and Teams) can quickly become obsolete, but administrators need some help to find the underused groups. PowerShell comes to the rescue through a mixture of checks against the group mailbox, Office 365 audit log, and Teams compliance records. A nice HTML report is the result – and isn’t that always welcome.

You can use logon scripts to assign tasks that will be performed when a user logs on to a particular computer. These scripts can carry out operating system commands, set system environment variables, and call other scripts or executable programs. Some tasks commonly performed by logon scripts include: Mapping network drives Installing and setting a…

Microsoft has announced the ability of the Planner web app to create multiple plans for an Office 365 group. This is a useful feature that Teams and SharePoint Online (the Planner web part) can already do, but some extra work was needed to break the connection between a plan and a group, and that’s what Multiplan means. Or it means a spreadsheet.

Sometimes you need to assign more then one email address to one object (user or group) from various reasons and make this new email address the default email address (this is email address that the recipient side will see and reply). In Exchange 2000 / 2003 servers all you have to do, is to create…

  Active Directory snapshots in Windows Server 2008 allow an administrator to either manually, or programmatically, create snapshots of the Active Directory database at a given time. With Active Directory snapshots, you can view the data inside such a snapshot on a domain controller without the need to start the server in Directory Services Restore…

What are the FSMO Roles in Active Directory? Windows 2000/2003 Multi-Master Model A multi-master enabled database, such as the Active Directory, provides the flexibility of allowing changes to occur at any DC in the enterprise, but it also introduces the possibility of conflicts that can potentially lead to problems once the data is replicated to…

How can I install the Remote Desktop Connection 5.2 client by use of GPO (Group Policy Objects)? RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) client is the client-side component of the Terminal Server connection. In order to allow a client to connect to a TS, the client needs to install the RDP client on their machine. The RDP…

Security Management with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a new feature that can be used to apply security configuration to devices that do not enroll into Microsoft Endpoint Manager. In this scenario, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint retrieves, enforces, and reports on policies deployed via Microsoft Endpoint Manager. The devices are joined to your Azure Active…