Windows Server

Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a legacy Windows tool that IT admins can use to manage account passwords of domain-joined computers. The company has finally updated LAPS this year and plans to bring it natively into Windows in 2023. In this article, I’ll explain how this new native version of LAPS works and…

Hackers are targeting unpatched Microsoft systems with publicly available SMBGhost PoC code.

This Week in IT now has its own YouTube Channel! If you have been watching This Week in IT since it started more than a year ago, you will probably realize that home was the Petri IT Knowledgebase YouTube channel. We recently decided that it would be nice to give the show its own identity…

Microsoft has announced that hotpatch support is now generally available for Windows Server Azure Edition VMs running the Desktop experience. This release enables organizations to patch and install updates to Windows Server virtual machines on Azure without rebooting. The Hotpatch feature accomplishes this goal by applying the patch in-memory code of running processes without restarting…

Devices hybrid joined to AAD are not joined to AAD. But instead, joined to ADDS and automatically registered with AAD.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell takes a look at Azure AD Password Protection and why Microsoft believes it will improve Active Directory security.

Having a ‘home lab’ as an IT pro offers multiple methods to add value and efficiency to your job duties and responsibilities. In this article, I’ll look at what is a home lab, what you need to set one up, and how it can help you to progress throughout your IT pro career. What is…

  Learn more about Azure Stack HCI, a preconfigured, validated offering that enables you to deploy a cloud in your own datacenter. What is Azure Stack HCI? Microsoft Azure Stack HCI is a cluster solution, based on a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). It is designed to host virtualized Windows and Linux workloads and their storage in…

How to ensure that Group Policy settings are applied every time Group Policy is processed.

How to centralize Group Policy templates to make managing configuration settings easier in a domain environment.