Category: 1. Operating Systems (220-1002)

Large organizations have big security policies and therefore may be managed through Active Directory Group Policies. At home though, you have stand alone computers that aren’t managed through Active Directory….

There are different types of users with different privileges. There can be an Administrator user who will be a Window super-user. There can be a Guest user that has limited…

By default the operating system doesn’t know how to talk directly to hardware. This is where device drivers come in to act as a middle man between the hardware device…

The Computer Management console (also known as the Microsoft Management Console) can be custom built to do what you need to do. It has a predefined mix of plugins that…

Not all users can run all commands. Users can have standard privileges or administrator privileges. Administrative privileges provide elevated access. Administrative privilege is provided by being a member of the…

If you’re not sure about a command you can use the help command to get more information. For example, you can do the command help dir for more information on…

The net command is specific to the Windows operating system. Command line method to map network shares. The net command can be used to view network resources: net view \\<servername>…

The copy command copies a file(s) from one directory to another, either on the same storage device or a different storage device. /v verifies that the new copied files are…

The format command can be used to write a file system to a partition. This is a useful command when you’re setting up a disk. Note that the format command…

If you are managing computers by putting them into an Active Directory Domain, they you are applying group policies to computers. gpupdate Group policies are usually updated at login. If…