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How to Disable Lock Screen on Windows 10
With Windows 10’s Anniversary Update, Microsoft no longer lets you disable the lock screen using a group policy setting or registry hack. But there are still workarounds for now.The group policy...
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How to Manage Lync External Access Policies Based on Active Directory Group...
This is a fairly simple script that uses a scheduled task that runs every 4 hours, looks at the members of a given AD security group, including nested groups, and applies a Lync policy to each member....
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How to Temporarily Lock Your Windows PC if Someone Tries to Guess Your Password
If you’re worried about someone trying to guess your Windows password, you can have Windows temporarily block sign in attempts after a specific number of failed attempts.Assuming you haven’t set...
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Measuring And Validating Network Bandwidth to Support Office 365 and Unified...
Using some of the available tools to help to understand the network bandwidth requirements deploying on-premise solutions or transitioning to Office 365.When planning connectivity between clients and...
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How to Port Your Old Phone Number to Google Voice
If you want to keep your old phone number after you got a new one, or you just want a second phone number to play around with, you can port that number to the awesome Google Voice service. Here’s how...
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How to Disable All The Activity Notifications on Your Apple Watch
By default, your Apple Watch will remind you to stand, notify you of your goal completions and achievements, and give you a weekly summary of your activity. Tired of seeing all these notifications? No...
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The Alternatives to uTorrent on Windows
Remember when uTorrent was great? The upstart BitTorrent client was super lightweight and trounced other popular BitTorrent clients. But that was long ago, before BitTorrent, Inc. bought uTorrent and...
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How to Disable the Password Reveal Button on the Sign-in Screen in Windows 10
 Make your sign-in experience more secure by disabling the Password Reveal button on the Sign-in screen on Windows 10. In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to further tighten...
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High Availability and Load Balancing Exchange Server 2016
In this article we’ll look at how Load Balancing works in Exchange 2016 and provide a sample implementation using a real-world load balancer.Load Balancing in Exchange 2016 is simpler than previous...
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How to Configure Credential Guard Through Group Policy on Windows Server 2016
 Credential Guard in Windows Server 2016 allows you to protect in-memory credentials. This article explains how Credential Guard works and how you can configure it via Group Policy. Credential Guard...
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How to Setup Storage Replica in Windows Server 2016
Storage Replica is a new feature in Windows Server 2016 that allows us to do storage-agnostic block-level replication of data.The main features of Storage Replica:It performs zero data-loss block-level...
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How to Use Security Compliance Manager in Windows Server 2016
You may be familiar with Microsoft Security Essentials or the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA), but have you ever seen the Security Compliance Manager (SCM) tool? Learn how to develop,...
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Active Directory's New Features in Windows Server 2016
Active Directory received three major enhancements with the release of Windows Server 2016. This article will review Privileged Access Management, Azure AD Join, and Microsoft Passport.Microsoft’s...
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How to Disable SSL in Windows Server 2016 With PowerShell
Cracking SSL-encrypted communications has become easy, if not trivial, for a motivated attacker. In July 2016, the de facto standard for encrypting traffic on the web should be via TLS 1.2. In this...
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New Group Policy Settings in Windows 10 version 1607
In Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update), new Group Policy settings were introduced. This post lists all the new settings and discusses the most interesting ones.Each time Microsoft releases a new...
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How to Set Windows 10 Ethernet Connection Metered with PowerShell
If you set your internet connection to metered, Windows will limit automatic downloads such as Windows Update. Whereas a Wi-Fi connection can be set to a metered connection easily with a few mouse...
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How to Restrict Users to Private Store with Group Policy in Windows 10
A new Group Policy setting (Only display the private store within the Windows Store app) in the Anniversary Update (Windows 10 1607) allows admins to disable the public store and restrict users to the...
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How to Install OpenDNS Umbrella Virtual Appliances on Hyper-V 2012 R2
OpenDNS Umbrella is another layer of security beyond firewalls and antivirus software. Your organization can utilize it to protect networks from malware, breaches, botnets, phishing, and cryptoware at...
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How to Integrate OpenDNS Umbrella with Active Directory
In my previous article, we set up redundant OpenDNS Umbrella virtual appliances to forward DNS data from our internal network to OpenDNS. We concluded with reports that correctly display IP addresses...
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How to Find Active Directory Users with empty password using PowerShell
If the PASSWD_NOTREQD flag is set in the userAccountControl attribute, the corresponding user account can have an empty password, even if the domain password policy disallows empty passwords. This...
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