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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…
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…
There are two common scenarios in which IT administrators find themselves trying to find “unknown” DHCP server on their network: A – Your Network Has Been Hacked Aa hacker may install a DHCP server on your network to allow them to specify their own DNS server. DNS (Domain Name Service) 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…