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In this short Azure tutorial we demonstrate how to remove static addresses from Azure virtual machines. In particular, we show how to remove static public IP addresses. 0:00 Introduction0:24 Why Remove Public IP Addresses0:44 How To Remove Public IP Address in Azure2:13 Outro Remember that Microsoft charges for static ip Read more…
Windows PowerShell gets better all the time and Microsoft offers a major new release about every three years. Here are all of the things you need to know about the version of PowerShell. Command To Show Current Version of PowerShell You can use the following command in PowerShell to display Read more…
Do you need to create a list table showing the size of each user’s recycle bin and then a total of all the disk space used on Recycle Bins? Well if so, this is the article for you! PowerShell Listing The Size of Each Users Recycle Bin in a Table Read more…
Is your PowerShell command stuck? Is it just sitting on the screen doing nothing? Let’s figure out why it’s doing that, or more correctly, why it’s not doing what you expect. We recently needed to export some metadata from a OneDrive account one of our clients called by I needed Read more…
Do you need to add high availability to your small business file servers or virtual machines? Perhaps you just need to make a SQL server cluster. Regardless this video tutorial provides easy step by step instruction of how to create a Windows Failover Cluster. 0:00 Introduction0:20 What is a File Read more…
Recently we were changing the Windows Failover Cluster Windows File Share Witness used for quorum on a two node cluster. Adding the new File Share Witness was straight forward (as we explained in THIS article and video), but trying to remove the old Cluster File Share Witness resulted in an Read more…
We had a client who was being Brute Force Attacked and we wanted to know if any of the usernames that were being tried, actually existed in their active directory. They had a substantial active directory with dozens and dozens of organizational units so browsing through them manually, or running Read more…
Recently we were trying to upgrade from Windows 11 22H2 to Windows 11 23H2, but could not find KB5027397 in WSUS. The problem is KB5027397 doesn’t exist in WSUS . At least if you do a search for KB5027397 it does not return any results in WSUS, as shown in Read more…
When you change the computer name field for a virtual machine (VM) in VMware Cloud Director, it affects the guest operating system’s identification on the network. However, it is important to note: To rename a VM in VMware Cloud Director, just: Put simply, while the computer name change affects network Read more…
Recently one of our technicians asked about the requirement to shut down a virtual machine running on Hyper-V before expanding it hard disk. Put simply, the answer is if it is a newer virtual machine you can expand the virtual hard disk without shutting down the vm first: Put technically Read more…
After some playing around, Googling and talking to Microsoft we verified that there is not a built-in feature to add a description or note directly to an Azure VM. However, you can easily use Azure Tags to add metadata to your Azure resources, including VMs: Note that each resource in Read more…
When you promote a Windows Server to be a Domain Controller, Active Directory tools get installed automatically including the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). Group Policy Management Console does not always get installed on member servers even if RSAT tools (think, Active Directory Users and Computers) are installed. Put simply, Read more…
This article answers the questions, ‘who has access to that printer and what permissions do they have?’ We recently had a large multinational company go through a security audit in which a list of Each user or group listed in the permissions of each printer was required. After struggling for Read more…
As you likely already know, most SSL certificates show only the “friendly name” of the issuing Certificate Authority and not the host name. 1 – The Certificates ISSUED BY Field Often the ISSUED BY field will give you a clue to the hostname of your CA If that CA name Read more…
“Authenticated Users” is a special built-in group in Active Directory. It doesn’t exist like a typical group as shown in the Group Scope table below. This group includes all users who have a password in the Active Directory domain or in a trusted domain. To be clear, Authenticated Users contains Read more…
If you’re an it pro and you have either worked on an Active Directory for a long time or taken someone else’s over you will know that there are security groups that are just not used anymore but you’re afraid to delete them because they might be. You can use Read more…