Networks
How to Block Windows Store in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019
Windows Store is a software platform owned by Microsoft that gives us the possibility to download different apps for personal and business purposes. It is available since Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Sometimes, there is a need to disable Windows Store from running, which means the user will not…
How to Perform Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2019
Implementation of backup and restore strategies in a personal or business environment is highly important. There are tons of different tools available to perform different types of backups on different operating systems or applications to on-premise storage or cloud such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. In this article, we…
How to Encrypt files and folders in Windows 10 using Encrypting File System (EFS)
When it comes to the files and disk encryption in Windows 10, two encryption technology can be used, Encrypting File System (EFS) with BitLocker. Encrypting File System (EFS) is used for encrypting files and folders and BitLocker is used to encrypt the entire disk (HDD or SSD). In this article,…
How to allocate Elastic IP address to Amazon EC2 Instances
Three types of IP addresses can be assigned to Amazon EC2 instance: private IP, public IP, and elastic IP. The private IP address is used for internal communication between instances that are in the same VPC. It is assigned by Amazon DHCP and it is a static IP address. The…
How to Find the Best WiFi Channel for Your Router?
WiFi channel is a medium through which our WiFi networks can send and receive data. Every network will be using one of the channels. The 2.4 GHz router will have 11 or 13 channels and each will be 20MHz wide. The 5GHz channels can range from 36 up to 165…
How to Generate Reports of your WSUS Server and other Managed Computers?
In a network, ensuring that your systems are up to date and free of any security vulnerabilities takes top priority. With the pace the internet is evolving and developing, the amount of security risks in a network are bound to increase. This is because of the great increase in the…
How to Manage and Uninstall Software on Local and Remote Computers?
As we dive deeper into the modern and digital world, everything is becoming online and for everything, there exists a software. This is almost convenient for the huge rise in online activity and is probably something that needs to be done. This has significantly made the tasks of various people…
How to Deploy Updates on Multiple Computers at the Same Time?
Updating your system is something that we all have to do at one point or the other. Some of you might not like the updates and that’s for some real reasons as some of the updates, at times, break a random functionality in your computer. However, despite the obvious reasons…
How to Manage and Synchronize WSUS Server with Microsoft Updates?
Computer updates are way more important than they usually are considered to be. Many of us neglect the updates released by Microsoft for their respective Windows which often fix various bugs. Albeit, there are times when a certain update breaks something while also fixing a different issue, but that often…
How to Analyze and Monitor Memory Utilization in Realtime on Network Devices?
Memory is one of the main components of computer systems. Gone are the days when computers used to have megabyte or kilobytes of memory. That was enough for its own period, however, in modern computers, we are running multiple processes and applications at the same time which require more memory…
How to Detect Host Outages using Ping Monitor?
Every business in this modern and digital world is going online. At this point, it has become for every business or an organization to have an online presence. If you do not have an online presence, you simply do not exist; it is as simple as that. This is one…
How to Automate Patch Management for Microsoft Servers, Workstations and Third-Party Apps?
Security is one of the biggest of system administrators till this day and why shouldn’t it be, with the amount of devices having the capability of communicating over the internet now – courtesy of the Internet of Things or IoT if you will. Sure, the work of a system administrator…
How to Analyze and Monitor CPU Load in Realtime on Cisco Routers?
In this evolving world, a network exists everywhere. Everything that we try to access over the internet exists over a network where multiple devices are communicating with each other continuously; sending and receiving data. All of these networks are set up and monitored by network admins but you already know…
How to Investigate and Troubleshoot DNS using DNS Audit
We all know that every device on the internet has an IP address. This IP address basically serves as the identity of the device. So, whenever a different device, let’s say your computer, wants to communicate or access a certain device, all you need is the IP address and any…
How to Scan your Local and Remote Subnets for MAC address, DNS, Network Card Manufacturer, and Manufacturer’s Address?
As networks become more and more complex, having a grasp over your network environment gets harder as more devices are added to it. This is because of the advancement in the network as more devices are now able to connect to the internet and communicate over the internet, also known…
How to Manage DHCP Scopes running out of IP Addresses?
Every single device in a network has an IP address. It enables them to access the internet and communicate over the network. This includes sending over data to the other devices in the network as well as communicating with the web servers. Without an IP address, the web server would…
How to Manage Configurations of Multiple Cisco Routers and Switches Easily?
With the internet advancing so rapidly, configuration files are deemed to change frequently as well. Network related technologies are skyrocketing and as a result, networks are becoming larger and more complicated by the day. This is something that cannot be avoided since it isn’t in your power. However, what is…
How to Identify Free and In USE IP Addresses on your Network?
IP addresses are the basis of a network. Every device that is present in a network has a specific IP address that it uses while communicating with the other devices in the environment. IP addresses make it easier for the network administrators to see what device is doing what and…
How to Monitor Availability and Measure Latency of Devices on your Network in Realtime?
Network performance is always one of the biggest concerns of a network administrator. A network admin has to take different measures to ensure maximum performance of the network which includes monitoring the important aspects of the network like servers and other network devices. To be able to better monitor a…
How to Test Network Performance on your WAN using Artificial Traffic?
Network performance is always a concern of a network engineer. He would go to extreme measures to ensure that the network performance stays optimum and does not face any hiccups. There is a limit to every and each network and that is something the network admin needs to keep himself…
How to Track and Troubleshoot Endpoint Devices Connected to Your Network?
Networks are getting bigger by the day with more and more devices added and connecting to the said network every day. There are tons of network devices present in a network and keeping track of all the devices can be quite the job. This especially gets hard when you are…
How to Configure a WebServer (IIS) or Apache on Alibaba Cloud ‘Elastic Compute Service’?
Cloud technology is on the biggest rise of its history and it’s just going to get better from here. Instead of having all the physical hardware, organizations are opting for having a cloud infrastructure instead as it proves to be more cost-efficient without impacting the reliability of the services. Having…
How to Change WiFi Network’s Name and Password?
Most of the time the default name for the Wireless Network will be related to the Router or the ISP. The network’s name is used to identify the network that users want to connect to. If there are two of the same kind routers and both have the default SSID,…
How to Check Who is Connected to Your WiFi Network?
Sometimes the WiFi network without security can be used by anyone within the range of the signal. Too many users on a network will make the Internet slow. Checking who is using your internet and putting security on it will help with the problem. However, many people have very little…
How to Configure and Restore Server Backups to Cloud in Simple Steps?
Accidents are bound to happen and there is nothing you can do about it. One day the hard drives are all fine and operational and the next day, you come to notice one of the storages malfunctioning and out of order. In some cases, the data stored inside the storages…