Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
So, this was a frustratingly easy fix that took me about 20 minutes figure out. I was patching a customers HyperV Clustered servers but found that one server failed to migrate to a different clustered node, when I tried to Drain the Roles. I tried to migrate the server manually, Read more…
In an article we published yesterday, we provided a simple PowerShell script to export a list of all of your stale Active Directory user accounts to a simple text file with nice columns that you could manipulate in Excel. In this follow-up article, we explain how to easily see the Read more…
In this video, we will guide you through the process of using the Windows File Recovery tool (WINFR) to restore accidentally deleted files on Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server. The Windows File Recovery tool is a free utility developed by Microsoft that allows you to recover deleted files Read more…
Sometimes you may find that you need to export the list of which security and distribution groups a user belongs to into a text file. This is sometimes done for auditing purposes and sometimes required because that amount of text in a CMD prompt is just oo hard to navigate. Read more…
If you see the Accumulated Too Many Security ID’s message when trying to log in, it means that you are a member of too many groups. The solution is to to into Active Directory and remove some groups from the MEMBER OF tab: Active Directory has a maximum of 1000 Read more…
We recently had a client who found that their Entra Cloud Sync (Formerly Azure AD Connect) Which was installed in Chicago was using a Domain Controller in Toronto for its changes. That is very odd because we thought Entra Cloud Sync / Azure AD Connect would use Active Directory Sites Read more…
Is your Windows Update broken? Obviously there are a lot of reasons why Windows Update can fail but here are some of the most common things that you can look for before you get into serious troubleshooting. When solving any technical problem it’s always best to start at the start Read more…
An awful lot of people think that snapshots are backups when in fact they are only good for rolling back to a the time they were taken and useless for most other purposes. Snapshots simply record all changes to the base disk since they were taken and freeze the VMDK Read more…
This is a follow up list to the top 200 worst passwords which we have HERE. This list shows the top 25 most common worst passwords used in the United States. This list was compiled by looking at recently hacked website information and filtering it by country; in this case Read more…
The Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc) was first seen in Windows 10 1511 and while it was disabled by default, Microsoft changed it to start Automatically (Delayed Start) in Windows 10 1607. Some users have noted that the service is chewing most of their CPU from time to time and Read more…
It’s not uncommon to find poorly kept active directories. The more administrators there are and the more time that has elapsed it is common to find very poor active directory hygiene. One thing that a lot of administrators like to do is leave old accounts as disabled, scattered throughout the Read more…
If your Windows 10 or Windows 11 or even Windows Server, is having problems like: there are a five easy things you can do to fix the problems: 1 – Uninstall Windows Bloatware Programs Just right click on your start button and select INSTALLED APPS (or PROGRAMS AND FEATURES… depends Read more…
Windows Server has a feature called PROTECT CONTAINER FROM ACCIDENTAL DELETION that blocks even Domain and Enterprise Administrators from deleting Organizational Units, Computers, Printers and other AD objects. Speaking from personal experience in early 2000’s, I can tell you that this is a really nice feature because you can really Read more…
The SQL Server Browser service allows users to easily connect to a SQL instance when there are multiple instances on the same computer. Without the SQL browser service you would need to assign port numbers to each instance to differentiate between them, which is a minor pain. So if like Read more…
If you’re working with a Asigra backup and you launch the DS Classic client, you might see this error: This likely resulted from your Java runtime being updated and you either need to recreate the shortcut or adjust the path. Asigra does not use traditional shortcuts; it is just a Read more…
After you have FTP setup in IIS, you might find that you want to be able to set each users FTP folder. To do this you need to set IIS FTP to run in USER ISOLATION MODE, and while this not hard, is it not obvious.