Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
Its a bit frustrating to find that by default Active Directory does not record the username of the last person who logged onto a computer. As such if you need to know who is logging into computers, you have to be a bit creative. How To Figure Out Who Is Read more…
Did you know you can see a list of printers on each server in Active Directory Users and Computers? The key is to view Users Computer Groups and Computers as CONTAINERS. This lets you see what each computer and server contain, like printers.
Recently I locked down a PC to allow a customer to remote into our office and run a single app. To make it secure I made a number of firewall changes to block internet and even LAN access. The problem I have is I couldn’t recall what those changes were Read more…
If you are working with Microsoft Exchange 2016, On-Prem, you weill find a new service named, Microsoft Exchange Notifications Broker. The Notifications Broker service is set to start AUTOMATICALLY by default and if you start it manually you will notice it stops after 30 seconds. What Is The Microsoft Exchange Read more…
Put simply that DCOM is AutoPlay, but to answer this question you need to understand DCOM. What is DCOM in Windows? DCOM is the acronym for Distributed Component Object Model and it is the . DCOM is Microsoft proprietary software component that allows COM objects to communicate with each other Read more…
There comes a day when you need to find out who logged on to a server or PC. Fortunately Windows tracks log-ons and log-offs but the log may contain hundreds or thousands of entries you do not want. So the question is how to filter the log to just a Read more…
The short answer for nearly everyone is 180 days but to answer the question, how long can a Domain Controller be offline, properly you need to understand what a Tombstone is and you also should consider your Flexible Service Master Roles (FSMO’s). What is an Active Directory Tombstone? In 1999 Read more…
Subject Alternative Names (SAN) certificates can save time and money because they allow you to use a single certificate for upto 5 domain names. They are quite common on servers that run Microsoft Exchange. Cloud providers of Exchange Online, like Office 365, usually take care of their own certificates and Read more…
I recently worked on a client system which was reporting this alert: MessagesInQueue: The MSMQ queue depth on APX-P01 for queue apx-p01\private$ \apxjobrequest is now 5205.0. and the tech assigned to it was not familiar with MSMQ. What is MSMQ? I explained that MSMQ is the acronym for Microsoft Messaging Read more…
Put simply Windows Volume Mount Points let you mount a drive as a folder. Mount Point are a disk (storage) feature that became available with Windows 2000 and are used today to assign one disk to a folder on another disk. The feature allows you to add physical storage (i.e. Read more…
Most larger companies will want to keep track of the what the IT staff are doing to Active Directory. In particular it is important to know who created, disabled and deleted accounts or made changes to email or security groups. On a Domain Controller (or something with RSAT tools installed), Read more…
When researching the error message below I found several websites making references to GUpdate as a virus. It is not. Eventsource: Windows System Event Log Windows Event ID: 10005 Message: DCOM got error “1053” attempting to start the service gupdate with arguments “/comsvc” in order to run the server: GUpdate Read more…
If you are a Windows IT Administrator there will come a day when you find a computer is locked up in some way and you need to at least try and fix it, before you give up and power cycle it. Fortunately there are few easy commands and methods to Read more…
If you have a computer that cannot connect to the domain you might see the following error logged in the Windows System Event Log: Windows Event ID: 5722 Message: The session setup from the computer <NAME>. failed to authenticate. The name(s) of the account(s) referenced in the security database is Read more…
You might see either or both of these errors in your Event Viewer: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-WinRM Event ID: 10149 Level: Warning Keywords: Classic Description: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests. User Action If you did not intentionally stop the service, use the following command Read more…
A few years ago we wrote a very popular article on how to solve the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH when RDP’ing to a PC or Server. The nut of it is to try CTL+ALT+END to send a remotes CTL+ALT+DEL among other tricks. In this article we explain how to restart Read more…