In a large enterprise an admin would need to keep track of all the domains in a AD forest, the domain names, the domain […]
Fix Active Directory broken security inheritance problem
Ran into a situation at a client location where in Active Directory, the security permissions applied to an OU were not getting inherited permissions […]
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. […]
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 […]
Deploying the SCCM Client with VMware Client Windows Guest Customization
Since SCCM is our configuration management tool of choice, the SCCM client needs to get installed on all of our newly provisioned VMs. I […]
NSLookup still showing IP of demoted Domain Controller
So had an interesting issue today where a Domain Controller (DC) was demoted yet the IP of the demoted DC was still showing up […]
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 […]
Going back to the basics….moving out of Amazon Drive!
As of June 8, 2017, it was announced that when when users try to sign up for Amazon Drive they will not be able […]
Map a network drive using PowerShell
Make sure you are using the latest version of PowerShell. On Windows 8/10 run it as administrator and type the following:
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New-PSDrive –Name “Z†–PSProvider FileSystem –Root “\\fileserver01\share†–Persist |
Where: Z […]
Speed up Active Directory & DNS replication between Sites
Using the standard GUI Microsoft Management Consoles to make the change to speed up Active Directory replication is not possible. The best result of using administrator consoles will be to increase domain replication between […]