SOLVED: Active Directory Object Contains Other Objects. Use Delete Subtree?
If you are trying to delete a user or compute from Active Directory you might be presented with the following popup message: Confirm Subtree Deletion Object {User or Computer Name} you sure you want to...
View ArticleSOLVED: Who and When Did Someone Login?
We have one of our very long standing clients wanting to know why some things are being done on a particular server at about 5:30 AM most mornings. We looked through backup schedules, scheduled tasks,...
View ArticleSOLVED: DFS State Query & Codes Explained
If you have worked with Active Directory on Windows Servers, you may have run into problems with things like GPO’s and Scripts not syncing between Domain Controllers and wondered how to troubleshoot...
View ArticleSOLVED: Users and Computer Changes Syncing But GPO’s and Scripts Are Not
We have a new customer whose Group Policies (GPO’s) and Scripts were not synchronizing between their two Domain Controllers, even though changes to Users and Computers were synchronized. Did you know...
View ArticleSOLVED: Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Deprecated
This is a very big change for small and medium sized businesses. In Microsoft’s never ending push to paid subscription services, they announced that WSUS would be deprecated. When Is WSUS Deprecated?...
View ArticleSOLVED: Fix Time Drift on a Corporate PC or Domain Controller
Last week we had a client with the Domain Controller that was off by more than three and a half minutes from the PDC. In case you’re not sure yes that is bad. If it gets to five minutes it can be...
View ArticleSOLVED: Script To Search For Specific Certificate
We had a computer with an expired certificate we could not find, but our monitoring software was alerting on. After some time, we gave up opening each certificate, one by one, to see if the thumbprint...
View ArticleSOLVED: Script to Export List of All Local Administrators
We brought on a new client with a lot of servers and as part of our due diligence, we needed to review all of the local administrators on each server. We wanted to make sure the previous MSP’s staff...
View ArticleSOLVED: Which User Profiles Are Still Being Used?
We had a client with over 100 user profile folders in C:\USERS, so they wanted to know which ones are still being used and which ones are not. The first thing we did is to click on the START button and...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Set Default Printer When Logging In To A Specific Computer
We have a client with a new RDS server and they want their all of their staff to have the “CutePDF Writer” as their default printer, but only when on that computer. To that end we wrote this script:...
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