I had an issue recently where the time on the workstations was off by a few minutes. The workstations all receive their time from the Domain Controller….but, which one? Remember that if you are running your DC as a VM then its getting its time from the host. That being said, this environment is Hyper-V so I am checking the […]
I ran across an issue this week where my DHCP server started throwing “warnings” that there were only 11 addresses left. Looking at the Leases it was pretty obvious that that wasn’t true though. So, how do you handle that? I did some looking around and probably about 90% of what I could find out there was to reduce the […]
A while back I had a need to check all the servers in my domain and see what services were logged in with “special” accounts. In other words, find any service that’s not running off of a default builtin account. A script like this comes in very handy when it comes time to update the password on an AD account that […]
I have been an admin for longer than I want to admit…I’m not old, I’m experienced. One thing I always seem to see notice among Windows admins is that if there is no GUI, they aren’t interested. Well several years ago Microsoft started producing a version of their server OS that were just command line since then I don’t think that […]
Not to long ago I took a class in HTML5, while the teacher encouraged everyone to just work off their own machine and just open the web pages they design with a browser. Being a bit of a nerd, I couldn’t bring myself to do it this way. To me I was making a web site so I wanted a […]
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