Stop users from launching installers directly from USB storage on domain-joined Windows computers. Configure removable-disk execution controls, block Windows Installer media sources, and deploy the policy safely through a dedicated GPO.
Learn how to centrally show or hide desktop icons on domain-joined Windows computers using Group Policy Management from Windows Server 2025.
Configure alternative SMB client ports for TCP, QUIC, and RDMA, understand the server-side limitations, and test file-share connectivity without weakening your network security.
Use Group Policy to prevent selected users from opening Control Panel and Windows Settings while leaving administrators and other user groups unaffected. Scope the policy carefully and test it before broad deployment.
Learn how to restrict access to a sensitive folder on a domain-joined Windows Server using NTFS permissions, security groups, and PowerShell—without accidentally locking out administrators or applications.
A step-by-step guide for administrators to shut down or restart domain-joined Windows computers securely using Command Prompt, the Remote Shutdown dialog, and PowerShell.
Understand how AD FS enables claims-based authentication and single sign-on, plan a secure deployment, install the role, configure a federation service, and validate the setup on Windows Server 2022.
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A 2-node S2D cluster is the smallest supported Storage Spaces Direct design, and the one where early decisions are hardest to undo. This guide helps you make those decisions first, then builds the cluster.
This guide teaches Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) group management from the ground up. You will learn the group and membership types, who can create and manage groups, how to create assigned and dynamic groups in the portal and with Microsoft Graph PowerShell.
