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ManageEngine ADAudit Plus 8.0 Build 8121 is a comprehensive Active Directory auditing and monitoring solution designed to track changes in Active Directory (AD) environments. It provides real-time auditing, reporting, and alerting on changes made to AD objects, ensuring compliance with security policies and regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX....

Microsoft has recently released a new version of its flagship productivity suite, Microsoft Office. You’ve likely noticed the ongoing shift in the IT industry toward SaaS solutions. To address this, Microsoft introduced Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) with a subscription model, moving away from the one-time payment model. However, some...

Microsoft released its new version of Windows 11, Windows 11 24H2, earlier this month. As usual, we will receive the installation discs of this operating system from Microsoft and share them with you without any interference and under the original name. Like previous versions, two discs are provided: business for...

Microsoft has released a new LTSC version of its Windows operating system, three years after the previous one. This new version is based on Windows 11, specifically Windows 11 24H2. We've discussed LTSC and its uses in previous posts, so I won't go over that again. One key point is...

Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 improve the SMB protocol with a particular focus on security. One of the key features is the ability to switch ports to TCP 445, which offers more security and flexibility. However, this capability is limited to the server-side QUIC protocol. For decades, Windows SMB has been...

What’s in SharePoint Server 2019 New user experiences More than ever, how people interact with technology is much more than just “look and feel.” Great experiences are those that both look great and work flawlessly, entertain and engage, with rich, contextual, and relevant content. The improvements to the SharePoint Server...

Description The Microsoft System Center software suite is Microsoft’s comprehensive management solution for seamlessly managing and running data centers across clients and servers to a variety of network equipment and physical and virtual environments as well as data monitoring and protection. By utilizing this suite, IT and IT administrators will be...

Since updating my VMware vSphere Packer build template for Windows Server 2025 (you can read that here: Windows Server 2025 Packer Build for VMware vSphere), I decided to tackle Proxmox, which wasn’t as straightforward. I wanted to share with you what I have come up with for automated installations of Windows...

In our daily work, we often encounter situations where migrating Hyper-V VMs to different storage is necessary, ideally without downtime. Starting with Windows Server 2012, Microsoft introduced storage live migration, a feature that allows us to move VM storage while the VM remains running. For versions prior to Windows Server...

A Domain Controller (DC) is a vital server in any network environment. It manages the domain's resources, such as users, groups, and devices, and authenticates and authorizes access to networked resources. In Windows Server 2025, configuring and promoting a server to a Domain Controller is a straightforward process that integrates...