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We have a new customer whose Group Policies (GPO’s) and Scripts were not synchronizing between their two Domain Controllers, even though changes to Users and Computers were synchronized. Did you know that Active Directory changes are sync’d between DC’s using two different services? From this we were able to figure Read more…
If you have worked with Active Directory on Windows Servers, you may have run into problems with things like GPO’s and Scripts not syncing between Domain Controllers and wondered how to troubleshoot it. In addition to the obvious, like: there is also a very handy command Microsoft Tech Support gave Read more…
We have one of our very long standing clients wanting to know why some things are being done on a particular server at about 5:30 AM most mornings. We looked through backup schedules, scheduled tasks, and SQL maintenance plans and other things and couldn’t find anything particularly useful. We also Read more…
If you are trying to delete a user or compute from Active Directory you might be presented with the following popup message: Confirm Subtree Deletion Object {User or Computer Name} you sure you want to delete object {User or Computer Name} and all of the objects it contains? If you Read more…
Microsoft Windows uses forest structure and in that forest are Domains. Most small companies only have one domain but it is still in a forest… a forest with one domain. Whats The Difference between Enterprise Admin and Domain Admin An Enterprise Admin can make changes to things in the forest, Read more…
In VMware, the terms “delete” and “remove” have distinct meanings: If you want to keep the VM’s files for future re-registration, you should select “remove from inventory.” If you want to delete the VM and its files permanently, you should select “delete from disk, like you can see we did, Read more…
If you work with most companies there will come a time when you will need to clean out user profiles that have just too much temporary file junk in them. Earlier this month we spent a few hours developing the script below that deletes: Just run this script in an Read more…
If you are trying to change settings on a printer and you see this error: Printer Settings Could Not Be Saved. This Operation Is Not Supported The solution is likely to disable SHARING.
A long time ago when the earth was green and everyone was good, email was sent in plain text from a senders outbox, to a their mail server, then to the recipients mail server, then to the recipients inbox, all was happy. Unfortunately scumbags hackers and thieves decided to take Read more…
Here the simple steps to add a subdomain to an on-premises Active Directory domain: Note that these steps assume you have the necessary administrative privileges (Domain or Enterprise Admin) to make changes to your Active Directory and DNS settings.
If you work on Azure Virtual Machines, there will come a time when you need to add CPU or memory. Does A VM Need To Be Off To Resize It? While you do not need to have a VM powered down or de-allocated to make the “size” change, it will Read more…
If you have LDAPS on your Domain Controllers, you might want to know what is using it. In our case, we had a new customer with an partially configured LDAPS and we wanted to know what, if anything, was even trying to use it. The solution is to use WireShark Read more…
If you have downloaded Microsoft Edge before you will see this screen: So you have a choice between downloading Microsoft Edge For: You have likely wondered what the difference is. Put simply, the browser core is the same, but the different versions update on different schedules and use slightly different Read more…
If you are trying to expand a disk volume, you may find that the Recovery Partition is blocking the expansion. A few months ago we wrote a short article explaining that it is safe to delete the recovery partition and you can take a snapshot in VMware prior to removal, Read more…
There have been changes in the way Azure is processing some of our old scripts, so we spent some time re-writing them. As such this article is intended to replace a July 2024 article with the same title. This script will create and delete snapshots for all Azure subscriptions and Read more…
In this short video we provide a full explanation of how to use a new free PC optimizing tool from Microsoft called PC Manager which you can download directly from Microsoft HERE.: 0:00 Introduction0:54 Download PC Manager1:24 Install Microsoft PC Manager1:47 What Does Boost Do in PC Manager3:00 Health Check3:31 Read more…