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 […]
Microsoft recently sent out the email below warning Azure customers that the “public ip SKU” version they are using for Virtual Machines, Firewalls, Azure Webapps, and other Azure services is going away. Upgrade to Standard SKU public IP addresses in Azure by 30 September 2025—Basic SKU will be retired You’re […]
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 […]
In a word, yes. You can safely recover many GB’s of disk space by deleting the old versions of C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\Owa\prem , however there are a couple of things to know before you go deleting what you think are old and unsused MS Exchange files / folders. How To […]
If your company is anything larger than tiny and you are using Microsoft Office 365 or Azure, you will almost certainly run into a situation in which you want to a few user account set to not expire. Perhaps they are service accounts, or they are accounts that contractors rarely […]
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If you are an administrator of Windows computers there will be a time when you need to shut down and or reboot a computer from another computer. Our case we just had a server that wouldn’t let us log in even after we remotely restarted services and remotely killed other […]
UPDATED: Feb 20, 2024 We use WSUS for Windows Update with the vast majority of our corporate clients large and small and while it is usually seamless come up when it goes wrong there’s a few commands we’re always struggling to find so we decided to list them out here […]
Recently we were working with a client that had an obscure disk volume problem and we needed to find an even more obscure reference to that disk. In this article we will show you three different ways to list the details of a disk and its volume. This includes the […]
Contrary to what a lot of websites are saying, Windows 12 isn’t released, even in beta, and Microsoft has said little about it. All that we have today are a few leaks and rumors. OK with that disclaimer out of the way there are a few things Windows 12 facts […]
The short answer is yes, Scavenging that should be configured on each of your DNS servers. That is also what Microsoft recommends. What is DNS Scavenging? DNS scavenging simply automatically deletes old DNS records. If you don’t enable DNS scavenging, you can have your DNS records with the same IP […]
Yesterday we were troubleshooting an error we found in our server monitoring tools that uses WMI queries to detect problems. It was reporting: File Server Errors LogonThe host {Server} is now in state warn as it has 1.2067 logon errors per second. This could indicate a password cracking attempt. The […]
One of our new clients had a server with error 7023 “An error occurred while using SSL configuration for endpoint 0.0.0.0:443”: A quick investigation showed, this error has been occurring for months (likely years, but the logs had been overwritten), the server had no certificates at all in the PERSONAL […]
In the fall of 2022, Microsoft announced a $10 Billion (yes, that a “B” for billion) dollar investment in a company named OpenAI that makes the fabled ChatGPT and they are scrambling to get the most out of that investment, but making integrating it into everything Microsoft makes, including Windows […]
There are some very confusing things about the Windows Recycle Bin that even experienced administrators don’t understand. When looking at Advanced System Properties > User Profiles it is important to note that the size of the profile listed does not include that user’s Recycle Bin and if you delete a […]
To delegate a user rights to shared mailbox in Exchange it pretty easy: The problem with adding a delegate through the Exchange portal is the delegated mailbox will “automap” into the users Outlook. If you have a bunch of these delegated shared mailboxes in your Outlook it can get a […]