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You may have noticed something named Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime in your Programs and Features, and wondered what it is: A clue is that you can see Microsoft ASP.NET Core was installed at the same time and has nearly the same build version number (in the screenshot above, they are Read more…
Here is a useful little script to help you clean up your Active Directory. This PowerShell script outputs a .CSV file (so you can then edit and sort in Excel) which includes the User Name, Last Logon Date, Account Name, Distinguished Name, and Description.
There are many times, especially when using scripts, that you may need to know the fully qualified path to an Active Directory Organizational Unit. The problem really comes in when an OU is buried under other OU’s, some of which may have spaces in their names.
We recently wrote two related articles you may find useful: If you are a Microsoft Partner and want to use your MS Partner benefits to open a new case, you have to add your Microsoft Partner tech support codes first. This is not hard to do but it is not Read more…
If you have ever opened a Microsoft technical support case you will know that they seldom get back to you quickly. One case that we just opened is now at 28 hours, on a 4 hour SLA and even after pestering them twice, we haven’t heard a peep out of Read more…
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 Read more…
In the past anything other than basic maintenance on Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) was a giant pain. Now you can do most of the work with simple scripts using Microsoft’s free SQL Server Management Studio. However, before we get to that you really should use the WSUS console to Read more…
We recently had a client with DHCP errors appearing every hour as shown below: PTR record registration for IPv4 address [[172.16.5.xx]] and FQDN cal2-e0cbbc90df.domain.com failed with error 9009 (DNS server not authoritative for zone.) It there are two known causes for this problem, both with easy fixes: 1 – Wrong Read more…
If you restore files and folders from a Microsoft Azure Backup (MABS), but did not have permission to the file / folder you want to access, you will likely see a series of popup errors culminating with “You have been denied permission to access this folder. To gain access to Read more…
If you are trying to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to a remote computer or use SMB (Small Message Block) to connect to a remote share on your home network, using your Microsoft Account, you may be frustrated that you cannot connect. The problem is most likely that you are not Read more…
If you want to run Microsoft Edge browser as a different user, the short answer is to hold the SHIFT key and right click on it. We will show you two different ways to do this if you are still confused. Let’s explain that a bit more. It is normal Read more…
We had a client who needed to delete their aged IIS log files without human intervention. To do this requires two steps: 1 – Script To Delete Files Older Than X Days In the example below we are deleting from C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1 that have not been modified for more than 90 Read more…
This error is telling you that there is an account that was most likely deleted from Active Directory but is still mentioned in a Group Policy. You have to find that group policy and look for an entry that contains only a SID (a hash of numbers and letters), but Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
We recently deployed some tools that require Windows Remote Management (WinRM). One of the servers had no problems starting the WinRM service but it had problems communicating and we found: Eventsource: Windows System Event LogWindows Event ID: 10150Message: The WinRM service could not use the following listener to receive WS-Management Read more…