How-to fix “Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed.”

In my situation, I had Windows Defender Antivirus disabled per GPO ("Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus" in Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Defender Antivirus), and I wanted to enable Windows Defender in a new GPO, on a specific set of computers. This resulted in an error message "Get-MpComputerStatus : The extrinsic Method could not be executed."
IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows 10

Install and setup IIS Manager for Remote Administration in Windows Server IIS (step by step)

In this article you’ll learn how to install and setup IIS Manager in Windows 11/10 to manage your website(s). You can also follow these steps to install Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager on a Windows Server Core edition, to locally or remotely manage hosted websites. This post also shows how to install IIS Web Management Service (WMSVC) on Server Core using PowerShell.
Microsoft OpenSSH SSH Server Properties screen

Install OpenSSH in Windows Server

How to install OpenSSH Server in Windows Server Core using PowerShell. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Microsoft SSH Server in Windows Server 2022 and below (2019, 2016, 2012 R2). OpenSSH is an ideal and secure way of performing remote maintenance & administration on your servers. Even on Windows Server!

Enable NTFS long paths GPO in Windows Server 2022, 2019 and Windows Server 2016

With Windows Server 2016 released, we can finally lift the idiotic 260 characters limitation for NTFS paths. In this post I'll show you how to configure the "Enable Win32 long paths" Group Policy, and how to make the "LongPathsEnabled" change in the Windows registry. The NTFS long paths GPO is also still required for Windows Server 2022 and 2019.