AD and Disaster Recoveryhttps://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/wiki/ms/activedirectorydisasterrecovery What does DCDIAG do...? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/askds/what-does-dcdiag-actually-do How Active Directory Authentication Works? http://www.rebeladmin.com/2018/06/active-directory-authentication-works/ AD DS security is key for any environment as it is foundation of identity protection.…
I've run into issues where the drive runs out of space and have to add a new one and move the data. Most of the time it scares me. I…
I was getting VM display resolution of max 1280 x 800 only. Small console window and hard to work with. Resolution: Power off the VMIncrease the total video memory. I…
While running sysprep on Windows 10 1909, encountered following error:"Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows installation. Review the log file at %WINDIR%System32\Sysprep\Panther\setupact.log for details. After resolving the issue,…
Although GPO is set properly, still the windows firewall C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Firewall\pfirewall.log showed blank. Solution: Provide NT SERVICE\MPSSVC account with Full Control permissions on the C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\Firewall folder and restart the workstation or the server.
To enable BitLocker PIN authentication when using BitLocker during the the computer startup using GPO, do not forget to read the GPO help instruction where it notes that only one…
Find AD user accounts with account expiration date set, sort and display user's name and expiration date. Get-ADUser -Filter "AccountExpirationDate -ne '*'" -Properties AccountExpirationdate | Sort-Object -Property Name | Format-Table…
Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -ForceError: Install-PackageProvider : Unable to find repository with SourceLocation ''. Use Get-PSRepository to see all available repositories. PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-PSRepository PackageManagement\Get-PackageSource : Unable to find…
Following one liner will display the dns records with date created and modified: Windows Server 2012 R2:Get-ChildItem "AD:DC=DomainDNSZones,DC=contoso,DC=com" -Recurse | Get-ADObject -Properties Created,Modified | Select-Object Name,Created,Modified | Sort-Object -Property Created…
Logging the print jobs on Windows Print Server. Got to your print server.Event Viewer --> Applications and Service Logs --> Microsoft --> Windows --> Print Service --> Operational --> Enable…