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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…
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…
How To Use OneDrive Recycle Bin 0:21 How To Restore Files From OneDrive Backups 3:01 How To Restore a Previous Version of a Document in OneDrive 4:42 Have you ever worked on a file for a few minutes then realize that all of the work you’ve done has been a 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…
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…
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…
This is a very tricky error to understand: Windows Event ID: 16979 Message: The domain is incorrectly configured with a MinimumPasswordLength setting that is greater than 14. NOTE: until this is corrected, the domain will enforce a smaller MinimumPasswordLength setting of 14. Currently configured MinimumPasswordLength value: 15 For more information Read more…
About a decade ago we wrote an article explaining the differences between in an IP printer port and it WSD port monitor. However we have received lots of requests from people asking how to get the IP address of a WSD port. So we’ll answer the question directly in just Read more…
In the old-days, there were backups and while people were confused about the differences between a full backup and an incremental backup, they understood the general concept. A backup is a copy of your files or an entire server. Then in the mid-2000’s we started hearing about this crazy thing Read more…