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AD in Windows 2008 R2

2016-01-08T16:56:53+02:00

AD in Windows 2008 R2 ---------- This article provides prerequisites and steps for installing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit (W2K8). This article does not provide instructions for adding a Domain Controller (DC) to an already existing Active Directory Forest Infrastructure.

Windows 2012 Server Antivirus Free

2016-09-27T16:37:17+02:00

Windows 2012 Server Antivirus Free By default, Windows Server 2012 comes without a security solution. This is especially important if you use 2012 as a robust workstation OS for your studying needs. So, to protect your time-consuming lab-rat experiments, you might feel left

Autodiscover MS Exchange 2013

2016-10-05T16:18:46+02:00

Autodiscover MS Exchange 2013 Lets see what are the Public DNS records we need to Configure for Exchange 2013 (Client Access / mail flow / Autodiscover) Create A record – Mail.CareExchange.in and point to the Exchange 2013 Server . If the server is load balanced – You will have to point to the VIP (Virtual IP of the load balancer)

How to Bypass Windows 10 Forgotten Password

2022-09-05T09:16:02+02:00

How to Bypass Windows 10 Forgotten Password How to Bypass Windows 10 Forgotten Microsoft Account & Reset Forgotten Local User Account in 2020 * Create usb windows 10 installation * Boot fro usb and select Troubleshooting --> System Image Recovery then cancel current window * Next step is enter Advanced button in current window and select Install Driver option

Change path to windows service

2015-10-02T08:54:20+02:00

Change path to windows service DESCRIPTION: Modifies a service entry in the registry and Service Database. USAGE: sc config [service name] ... OPTIONS: NOTE: The option name includes the equal sign. type= start= error= binPath= group= tag= depend= obj= …

Set a proxy for Windows using netsh

2018-06-11T09:56:43+02:00

Set a proxy for Windows using netsh Set a proxy Example: Tunnel all your internet traffic through a socks proxy netsh winhttp set proxy proxy-server="socks=localhost:9090" bypass-list="localhost" View the current proxy settings netsh winhttp show proxy

Delete primary partition - DiskPart

2016-04-27T00:03:15+02:00

Delete primary partition - DiskPart * Diskpart * List Disk * Select Disk 1 (Replace 1 with number reflecting your SD Card) * clean * create partition primary * active * format fs=fat32 quick * assign

Windows Server 2016 Evaluation: How to extend the Trial Period

2018-05-28T10:14:34+02:00

Windows Server 2016 Evaluation: How to extend the Trial Period In this blog post I show how to extend your trial period to three years. The evaluation version of Windows Server 2012 / 2016 is valid for 180 days and you can convert your trial version to retail.

Exchange 2013 Logging Clear out the log files

2017-01-12T13:24:44+02:00

Exchange 2013 Logging Clear out the log files In your Exchange 2013 environment you may be wondering why the space on your C:\ drive where Exchange is installed is filling up so quickly. This is due to the amount of logging Exchange 2013 does by default. Microsoft turned this on to assist them with more rapid assistance with customers instead of waiting for logs.

Exchange 2013 Cannot open mailbox microsoft system attendant

2017-01-12T11:46:11+02:00

Exchange 2013 Cannot open mailbox microsoft system attendant While doing some Work on my Exchange 2013 server, a, for me, new error popped up: For some reason it turned out my maildatabses weren’t mounted. See if your database/s are mounted. Important to remember the “-status” or the column will be blank.

Exchange 2013 Move Database to a New Location

2017-01-12T11:51:00+02:00

Exchange 2013 Move Database to a New Location When you install a new Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox server a database is automatically created on the server as well. The database is located in the \Mailbox folder of the Exchange installation path, which by default is the C:\ drive therefore a mailbox database will be placed in a path such as:

Exchange 2013 whitelist

2017-11-24T15:14:23+02:00

Exchange 2013 whitelist Anti-spam protection in Exchange Server 2013, like in previous versions, gives an opportunity to create a whitelist of trusted email addresses and senders domains, mail from which regardless of their contents should always be received.

Cleanup logs Exchange 2013/2016/2019

2021-10-25T10:46:31+02:00

Cleanup logs Exchange 2013/2016/2019 Starting from Exchange 2013 and higher, logs are taking up more space on the Windows Server. This is when cleanup logs Exchange 2013/2016/2019 script plays an important role. Clear Exchange logs with PowerShell and get free space on the Exchange Server. These logs are NOT database logs! You can safely delete these logs. In fact, I recommend you to delete them.

Exchange new SSL

2015-10-02T11:16:17+02:00

Exchange new SSL First Part Second Part

Delete Failed DCs from AD

2015-10-08T14:30:06+02:00

Delete Failed DCs from AD When you try to remove a domain controller from your Active Directory domain by using Dcpromo.exe and fail, or when you began to promote a member server to be a Domain Controller and failed (the reasons for your failure are not important for the scope of this article), you will be left with remains of the DCs object in the Active Directory. As part of a successful demotion process, the Dcpromo wizard removes the configuration data for the domain controller from Active …

Fix Sysprep

2021-09-27T12:30:06+02:00

Fix Sysprep Now, to fix your issue you can use the following solutions. There are a few solutions to this error which include Registry modification etc., therefore, make sure to follow the instructions carefully in order to avoid any mistakes which can potentially result in something critical.

FSMO roles

2015-10-08T12:44:11+02:00

FSMO roles ---------- In a forest, there are at least five FSMO roles that are assigned to one or more domain controllers. The five FSMO roles are: * Schema Master: The schema master domain controller controls all updates and modifications to the schema. To update the schema of a forest, you must have access to the schema master. There can be only one schema master in the whole forest.

How to uninstall MSE from Windows Server 2012 R2

2020-12-08T12:22:48+02:00

How to uninstall MSE from Windows Server 2012 R2 We recently ran into a situation where we had a Windows 2012 R2 server with Microsoft Security Essentials installed on it (from a few years ago), and now with a recent Windows Update – the Windows update will not install because MSE is no longer compatible with this

Synchronize time with external NTP

2017-11-01T10:17:55+02:00

Synchronize time with external NTP Time synchronization is an important aspect for all computers on the network. By default, the clients computers get their time from a Domain Controller and the Domain Controller gets his time from the domain’s PDC Operation Master. Therefore the PDC must synchronize his time from an external source. I usually use the servers listed at the NTP Pool Project website. Before you begin, don’t forget to open the default UDP 123 port (in- and outbound) on your (corpo…

Outlook shared mailbox Sent

2018-09-12T10:31:01+02:00

Outlook shared mailbox Sent In order to save messages sent from a shared mailbox in the sent items of the shared mailbox, modify the Registry for your Outlook: * Click Start, click Run, type Regedit, and then click OK. * Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\x.0\Outlook\Preferences

Using PowerShell Behind a Proxy

2019-02-26T10:20:54+02:00

Using PowerShell Behind a Proxy If you access the Internet in the organization via the proxy server, by default you won’t be able to access an external webpage (Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet), update help using Update-Help cmdlet or download an application package from an external package repository (using PackageManagement or NanoServerPackage) from your PowerShell session. In this article we’ll show how to get the Internet access via proxy server with the authentication from a PowerShell session.…

PowerShell Scripts from Task Scheduler

2019-02-26T14:43:24+02:00

PowerShell Scripts from Task Scheduler PowerShell is quickly taking over as the defacto scripting language in Windows environments--in fact, Microsoft has decreed to all of it's software units that they must create PowerShell cmdlet's with full functionality to the software in all future releases.

Fix MBR through command prompt

2018-04-25T17:29:04+02:00

Fix MBR through command prompt after selecting repair>cmd prompt, enter: BootRec.exe /fixmbr you can also substitue the /fixmbr with thes commands: /FixBoot. Writes a boot sector onto the system partition to start Windows /ScanOs. Scans all disks for Windows installations and displays them to you.

Exchange 2013 EAC Securing access to Microsoft

2017-01-12T11:44:52+02:00

Exchange 2013 EAC Securing access to Microsoft The coexistence of the Exchange 2013 Administration Console (EAC) with the other Exchange website virtual directories represents a considerable security vulnerability for any organization that installs it using the out-of-box defaults. Since most organizations need Outlook Anywhere and EWS to be Web-facing, and usually OWA too, the EAC will also end up being publicly accessible – inadvisable security practice in itself, even more so for another imp…

Windows 7 reset password

2019-04-09T22:09:10+02:00

Windows 7 reset password

Windows Server 2016 disable update

2018-10-04T08:57:11+02:00

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WSUS client commands and settings

2016-03-30T10:14:42+02:00

WSUS client commands and settings The wuauclt /detectnow option initiates a detection on all systems, the behavioral differences are a function of the setting of the Configure Automatic Updates policy. If AUOption='4' (as you have for your workstations), the command will detect available updates, automatically queue updates for download via BITS, and automatically schedule those updates for installation at the configured time when the download has been successfully completed.