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As a computer tech I’m often asked what computer someone should buy, especially during the back to school season. It’s been my experience that without that direction they typically go to a store and buy something pretty that an experience an inexperienced commissioned salesperson tells them is right for them. Read more…
I recently had to patch a server running all of the Netwrix products and it was taking forever because those services were using all 8 cores and 16GB the server had. Here is a simple PowerShell command to stop multiple services that start with the same name: Replace SERVICENAME with Read more…
We were working a Group Policy that placed program shortcuts on users desktop but found that specifying the icon source as coming from a network location (in our case we tried the SYSVOL) that only a placeholder would appear. If you want to know how to place shortcuts on the Read more…
We explain and demonstrate everything you need to know about the Net Time Service w32tm and how to configure it on a Windows Domain Controller. To determine which Net Time Server is right for you visit www.pool.ntp.org Intro 0:00Windows Time Service Tutorial 0:20Do All Domain Controllers Need The Net Time Read more…
This is a moot question on a Window PC if it is not attached to a domain. By default, since Windows 7, and Windows Server 2012 R2, the Windows Time Service has been coded to “MANUAL – TRIGGERED” . If you change it to AUTOMATIC, it may change back to Read more…
GPO Filtering not working? In this Active Directory Group Policy Filtering Tutorial, we explain the gotcha and how to fix it. Once you remove AUTHENTICATED USERS from a GPO FILTER your GPO will not likely work very well. We use Windows Server 2022 but these step by step instructions are Read more…
In this video GPO Tutorial, we show you how to us GPO to put a website browser shortcut on the Windows Desktop and how to add a program shortcut to the STARTUP folder so it starts automatically. Windows Active Directory GPO’s are very helpful for creating program shortcuts in menus Read more…
In a word, yes; the DHCP CLIENT service should be running on EVERY computer including DHCP servers. The DHCP CLIENT service is in the dependency chain for many other services including: Winsock NetIO Network Store Network Location Awareness WinHTTP Web Proxy I found this problem when trying to figure out Read more…
If you need to figure out which server is the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) server or you need to know if the computer you are working on is pointing to a particular WSUS server, you need to know where the WSUS registry key is. The WSUS Registry Key is: Read more…
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…