Ran into a situation at a client location where in Active Directory, the security permissions applied to an OU were not getting inherited permissions on to...
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Find why an account is getting locked out and where
Many a times there comes a request that a user complains that an account is getting locked out for no apparent reason and it’s hard to...
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- June 6, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Get All DCs in the Entire Forest
Getting a know a new environment for a new client and I a quickly needed information about all domain controllers in the entire forest. Wrote a...
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- March 6, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Determine & Change Tombstone Lifetime in Active Directory
Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. There are a number of ways...
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- February 5, 2019
- PowerShell Windows
Convert a Dynamic IP to Static
Working on a project where on some servers the DHCP assigned addresses needs to be converted to static. Since there is always more than one…I needed...
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- October 18, 2018
- PowerShell
Force Replication of all Domain Controllers on all Sites
If you want to replicate all Domain Controllers, then you have to start replication on each of them separately. This may take a while. To save...
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- September 14, 2018
- PowerShell Windows
Oracle to charge for Java Updates & how you can disable them
Prepare for 2019 Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for “Business, Commercial or Production use” without...
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- August 7, 2018
- Information Technology PowerShell Windows
All of Windows Cipher Suites
Working on a security project and I needed a reference guide as to what cipher suites are supported on what OS. So I have documented a...
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- May 15, 2018
- Windows
List Domain Admins & Enterprise Admins in a domain
If you want to find out how many domain/ enterprise admins are active/inactive in domain you can use the following PowerShell command to figure out: Get...
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- April 19, 2018
- PowerShell
ConfigMgr 2012 R2 – WSUS sync fails with HTTP 503 errors
Ran into this issue with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 where it was unable to synchronize Software Update Point with the WSUS server. A review of the component...
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- March 19, 2018
- Windows