SOLVED: 3 Easy Ways To Find a Certificate Authority In Active Directory
As you likely already know, most SSL certificates show only the “friendly name” of the issuing Certificate Authority and not the host name. 1 – The Certificates ISSUED BY Field Often the ISSUED BY...
View ArticleSOLVED: PowerShell Script To List Each User / Groups Access to Printers
This article answers the questions, ‘who has access to that printer and what permissions do they have?’ We recently had a large multinational company go through a security audit in which a list of Each...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Install Group Policy Management Console Tools (GPMC) on...
When you promote a Windows Server to be a Domain Controller, Active Directory tools get installed automatically including the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). Group Policy Management Console...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Add A Description Note To an Azure VM
After some playing around, Googling and talking to Microsoft we verified that there is not a built-in feature to add a description or note directly to an Azure VM. However, you can easily use Azure...
View ArticleSOLVED: Can Hyper-V Disks be Expanded Without Shutting Down The VM
Recently one of our technicians asked about the requirement to shut down a virtual machine running on Hyper-V before expanding it hard disk. Put simply, the answer is if it is a newer virtual machine...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Rename a VM in VMware Cloud Director
When you change the computer name field for a virtual machine (VM) in VMware Cloud Director, it affects the guest operating system’s identification on the network. However, it is important to note: To...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Find The Windows 11 Enablement Package Into WSUS
Recently we were trying to upgrade from Windows 11 22H2 to Windows 11 23H2, but could not find KB5027397 in WSUS. The problem is KB5027397 doesn’t exist in WSUS . At least if you do a search for...
View ArticleSOLVED: PowerShell to Export All Users From All Organizational Units to a CSV...
We had a client who was being Brute Force Attacked and we wanted to know if any of the usernames that were being tried, actually existed in their active directory. They had a substantial active...
View ArticleSOLVED: The Cluster Resource Could Not Be Deleted Since It Is A Core Resource
Recently we were changing the Windows Failover Cluster Windows File Share Witness used for quorum on a two node cluster. Adding the new File Share Witness was straight forward (as we explained in THIS...
View ArticleSOLVED: VIDEO: How To Build a 2 Node Windows Failover Cluster
Do you need to add high availability to your small business file servers or virtual machines? Perhaps you just need to make a SQL server cluster. Regardless this video tutorial provides easy step by...
View ArticleSOLVED: Why PowerShell Is Not Displaying Anything
Is your PowerShell command stuck? Is it just sitting on the screen doing nothing? Let’s figure out why it’s doing that, or more correctly, why it’s not doing what you expect. We recently needed to...
View ArticleSOLVED: Simple PowerShell Command to List Size of Each Users Recycle Bin & Total
Do you need to create a list table showing the size of each user’s recycle bin and then a total of all the disk space used on Recycle Bins? Well if so, this is the article for you! PowerShell Listing...
View ArticleSOLVED: Discover Your PowerShell Version, Learn How to Upgrade PowerShell, &...
Windows PowerShell gets better all the time and Microsoft offers a major new release about every three years. Here are all of the things you need to know about the version of PowerShell. Command To...
View ArticleSOLVED: VIDEO: How To Remove Public IP Address & Save Money In Azure
In this short Azure tutorial we demonstrate how to remove static addresses from Azure virtual machines. In particular, we show how to remove static public IP addresses. 0:00 Introduction0:24 Why Remove...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Determine What Is Using Apache on Windows
If you are a Windows tech, you will run into Apache web server from time to time and likely be frustrated that it does not have even a basic GUI (by default) to manage it. We recently had a client go...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Disable / Uninstall PaloAlto Cortex XDR (Formerly TRAPS)
We recently found a few servers were having problems seeing other servers and set out to figure out why. Communication was fine in one direction but not the other (i.e. SERVER1 could talk to SERVER2,...
View ArticleSOLVED: What Are Random Numbers and Letters Folders In C:\
If you open up File Explorer (aka, COMPUTER, MY COMPUTER) and find that your C: drive has one or more folders that appear to be named just random letters and numbers, this is the article for you:...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Determine The SQL Server Version Number From an .MDF File
If you have ever performed a restore of an old SQL database you may have found yourself trying to figure out what version of SQL Server it was running on. This is because you cannot directly attach an...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Renew an Expiring Certificate Used in IIS in 3 Easy Steps
Renewing certificates is always problematic for those who don’t deal with SSL certs all the time. This very short step by step instruction should get you through it without too much problem. Make sure...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Renew A Self Signed Certificate in Windows IIS, in 2 Easy Steps
Unless you deal with certificates frequently, they can be quite confusing. This article is intended to help our technicians renew just simple self signed certificates on IIS web servers and we thought...
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