Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
We brought on a new client with a lot of servers and as part of our due diligence, we needed to review all of the local administrators on each server. We wanted to make sure the previous MSP’s staff were removed and to provide list of questionable admins to our Read more…
We had a computer with an expired certificate we could not find, but our monitoring software was alerting on. After some time, we gave up opening each certificate, one by one, to see if the thumbprint matched, and just wrote the script below. It searches through all the certificates on Read more…
Last week we had a client with the Domain Controller that was off by more than three and a half minutes from the PDC. In case you’re not sure yes that is bad. If it gets to five minutes it can be catastrophically bad. What Happens When DC’s Have Different Read more…
This is a very big change for small and medium sized businesses. In Microsoft’s never ending push to paid subscription services, they announced that WSUS would be deprecated. When Is WSUS Deprecated? Here are all the dates you need to know: Deprecation, Not Discontinuation: Microsoft has announced the deprecation of Read more…
We have a new customer whose Group Policies (GPO’s) and Scripts were not synchronizing between their two Domain Controllers, even though changes to Users and Computers were synchronized. Did you know that Active Directory changes are sync’d between DC’s using two different services? From this we were able to figure Read more…
If you have worked with Active Directory on Windows Servers, you may have run into problems with things like GPO’s and Scripts not syncing between Domain Controllers and wondered how to troubleshoot it. In addition to the obvious, like: there is also a very handy command Microsoft Tech Support gave Read more…
We have one of our very long standing clients wanting to know why some things are being done on a particular server at about 5:30 AM most mornings. We looked through backup schedules, scheduled tasks, and SQL maintenance plans and other things and couldn’t find anything particularly useful. We also Read more…
If you are trying to delete a user or compute from Active Directory you might be presented with the following popup message: Confirm Subtree Deletion Object {User or Computer Name} you sure you want to delete object {User or Computer Name} and all of the objects it contains? If you Read more…
Microsoft Windows uses forest structure and in that forest are Domains. Most small companies only have one domain but it is still in a forest… a forest with one domain. Whats The Difference between Enterprise Admin and Domain Admin An Enterprise Admin can make changes to things in the forest, Read more…
In VMware, the terms “delete” and “remove” have distinct meanings: If you want to keep the VM’s files for future re-registration, you should select “remove from inventory.” If you want to delete the VM and its files permanently, you should select “delete from disk, like you can see we did, Read more…
If you work with most companies there will come a time when you will need to clean out user profiles that have just too much temporary file junk in them. Earlier this month we spent a few hours developing the script below that deletes: Just run this script in an Read more…
If you are trying to change settings on a printer and you see this error: Printer Settings Could Not Be Saved. This Operation Is Not Supported The solution is likely to disable SHARING.
A long time ago when the earth was green and everyone was good, email was sent in plain text from a senders outbox, to a their mail server, then to the recipients mail server, then to the recipients inbox, all was happy. Unfortunately scumbags hackers and thieves decided to take Read more…
Here the simple steps to add a subdomain to an on-premises Active Directory domain: Note that these steps assume you have the necessary administrative privileges (Domain or Enterprise Admin) to make changes to your Active Directory and DNS settings.
If you work on Azure Virtual Machines, there will come a time when you need to add CPU or memory. Does A VM Need To Be Off To Resize It? While you do not need to have a VM powered down or de-allocated to make the “size” change, it will Read more…
If you have LDAPS on your Domain Controllers, you might want to know what is using it. In our case, we had a new customer with an partially configured LDAPS and we wanted to know what, if anything, was even trying to use it. The solution is to use WireShark Read more…