If you’re looking to use VMware NSX’s Guest Introspection feature, you’re going to need theGuest Introspection Thin Agent component installed with VMware Tools. This feature is not installed by default, which requires going back and updating your VMware Tools installation. Feature Check If you’re not sure if the feature is installed, open up the Programs […]
So had a request today to clean up email addresses as some of them were not valid. This was needed for over 1500 email addresses. So used the formula below and was able to find all addresses that were “FALSE”. I filtered them out and was able to fix them as needed. Here’s what you […]
There are occasions where we need to do bulk DNS record management such as create and update a large series of records for IP network changes or BCP testing. The environment I am working with is a Microsoft DNS zone. It can be a standard Primary, or an Active Directory Integrated zone. Either type will […]
The resolver is a set of routines in the C library that provide access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). The resolver configuration file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process.
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$ cat /etc/resolv.conf |
OR
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$ less /etc/resolv.conf |
Sample output:
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nameserver 203.54.1.20 nameserver 203.54.1.21 |
After you install Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 R2, you may start seeing the following error message after the server boots: The DFS Namespace service could not initialize cross forest trust information on this domain controller, but it will periodically retry the operation. The return code is in the record data. This occurs because […]
So I ran into an interesting issue where I needed to remove a DNS role from a Core Windows box. After googling for serveral minutes, I was able to craft up the command that is used to uninstall the role.
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Dism.exe /online /disable-feature /featurename:DNS-Server-Full-Role /featurename:DNS-Server-Tools |
Using the command above the DNS role uninstalled successfully. A reboot was required so […]
I noticed the DNS broke on my servers after Windows Update. The problem was KB3145126. Read more about it here. After a quick removal and reboot, DNS was operational again. To remove/uninstall KB3145126, open powershell and run the following:
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wusa.exe /uninstall /KB:3145126 |
Hope this helps.
To check the proxy settings like ProxyOveride or if it is enabled or not:
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Get-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" |
To disable proxy from PowerShell:
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Set-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" ProxyEnable -value 0 |
To enable proxy from PowerShell:
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Set-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" ProxyEnable -value 1 |
Whatever the reason may be to enable or disable proxy, here is a simple registry hack to turn it on or off. Open powershell in admin mode. Enable:
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Set-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" ProxyEnable -value 1 |
Disable:
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Set-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" ProxyEnable -value 0 |
The above method require an IE restart, alternatively if you don’t want to restart IE. Make similar change under:
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[HKEY_USERS\<your SID>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings] |
To find your SID […]
Open Command Prompt. Once Command Prompt is open, type the following command exactly as shown here, including spaces or lack thereof:
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<strong>wmic useraccount get name,sid</strong> |
and then press Enter. You should see a table, similar to the following, displayed in the Command Prompt window:
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Name SID Administrator S-1-5-21-1180699209-877415012-3182924384-500 Guest S-1-5-21-1180699209-877415012-3182924384-501 HomeGroupUser$ S-1-5-21-1180699209-877415012-3182924384-1002 Tim S-1-5-21-1180699209-877415012-3182924384-1004 UpdatusUser S-1-5-21-1180699209-877415012-3182924384-1007 |
This is a list of each user account in Windows, listed by […]
