A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
Recent reports of widespread National Security Agency spyingand NSA encryption circumvention provide an eye-opener on the vulnerability of data in transit and stored online. Like it or not, the revelation is forcing businesses concerned with data privacy or secrecy to rethink how they can protect data from hackers and state-sponsored groups. While eschewing online services by bringing IT in house can solve many data […]
Read moreI needed to export a list of all the members in an active directory group today. Here are two methods which work well. The first example uses the net group command. In both examples ‘Group Name’ is the name of the group that you want to export the member list for, and memberlist.txt is the name of the output file. […]
Read moreGood morning my fellow readers. Today I am going to show you how to set up WSUS on Windows Server 2008 R2. WSUS is fantastic for centralising management of Windows Updates throughout your network. Installing a WSUS server makes deploying patches and security fixes much easier and so by default makes your life easier too!! For the purpose of this tutorial I will […]
Read moreProblem: You need to deploy many clients. Solution: Use Windows Deployment Services What you need: Windows Deployment Services, OS images, an Active Directory domain, DNS, DHCP, and an NTFS partition. Steps: Install WDS Configure WDS Add boot images Add install images Add drivers to your images Deploy to Clients Windows Deployment Service (WDS) is Microsoft’s replacement for Remote Installation Service. […]
Read moreIf you’re like me you’re rarely sitting in front of your customer’s hardware. These simple steps will allow you to find the Service Tag for your Dell hardware without looking on the device. 1. Open command prompt Go to Start > Run and type cmd to start your command prompt. Administrative rights are not required to run this command. […]
Read moreIntroduction There’s no question that PowerShell is here to stay as an automation tool for Windows. And with it, comes a variety of ways to automate management Windows infrastructure. For sure one of the most important areas where PowerShell automation can provide big benefit, is in the management of Active Directory. AD lends itself to automation—whether it’s being able to […]
Read moreGroup Policy replication is controlled by two different replication mechanisms: FRS and Active Directory replication. We will take a look at both mthods within this article. As Group Policy becomes more important for managing desktops and servers in Active Directory, it makes sense that the details around Group Policy need to be understood more completely. There are many moving parts […]
Read moreExcessively Large Sysvol The first issue I want to discuss is an issue I faced with an excessively large SYSVOL. As we all know, the SYSVOL is replicated to all domain controllers within the domain. So, as soon as you place a file in the SYSVOL, it will be triggered by the File Replication Service (FRS or NTFrs) or DFRS […]
Read moreIntroduction Just in case you didn’t get the memo: Microsoft is “all in” when it comes to cloud computing. I’ve written a bit about cloud computing before on this site and will do so more in the future. Most analysts think Microsoft has made the right decision to go “all in” with the cloud, in part because the nature of […]
Read moreThe NET Command is used to manage network security resources as follows: View user account password and logon requirements (also displays the machine type – Server or workstation) NET ACCOUNTS View password and logon requirements for the network domain. NET ACCOUNTS /DOMAIN Set the number of minutes a user has before being forced to log off when the account expires […]
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