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PortQry and PortQryUI
I was aware of PortQry but didn’t know it has a GUI counterpart too PortQryUI. For a quick read on PortQry check out this link, if you have more time and interest check out this KB article. PortQry/...
View ArticleSOA records (and dynamic DNS in Windows)
I am on the DNS section of my notes from the AD WorkshopPLUS I attended a few months back. That’s why the recent posts are about DNS … The SOA (Start of Authority) record is something DNS...
View ArticleNotes on Dynamic DNS updates, DNS Scavenging, etc.
Dynamic DNS updates can be set to one of these (per zone): None => No dynamic updates are allowed for the zone on this server Secure => Only secure updates are allowed. Note: This is only...
View ArticleWindows 10 activation
Each time I update Windows 10 I run in this. After updating Windows tells me it needs activation, and clicking “Activate” does not help. Neither does entering the license key...
View ArticleWindows 10 Cortana is not available if the region is not US
When I moved to build 9926 Cortana was working. Then I went and changed the region (in Control Panel) to where I am. And boom! next time I try Cortana it says it is unable in my market. Changed...
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Authorizing a DHCP server in a Child Domain requires Enterprise Admin rights...
Today I learnt that to authorize a DHCP server in a child domain you must be an Enterprise Admin or a Domain Admin in the forest root domain or have the rights delegated to you. I was always under the...
View ArticleReplicate with repadmin
The following command replicates the specified partition from the source DC to the destination DC. You can use this command to force a replication. Note that these three arguments are mandatory....
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Roaming profile permissions and versions
Ever noticed that when you moved from Windows XP to Windows 7 the profile name as a .V2 appended to it? That’s because the profile format changed with Windows Vista and to avoid mistakenly loading the...
View ArticleAD Domain Password policies
Password policies are set in the “Computer Configuration” section at Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account Policies\Password Policy. The policy applies to the computer as...
View ArticleBeware of takeown and recursively operating
takeown is an in-built Windows tool that lets you take ownership of files and folders. Unlike other tools (e.g. icacls) which only let you give someone the right to take ownership of a file or folder,...
View ArticleBatch file to add BUILTIN\Administrators group to a folder of roaming profiles
Based on the idea I elaborated in my previous post: REM Run this in a folder full of roaming profiles (of format username.v2) REM This script will process each folder and if the context under which it...
View ArticleNotes on using Git from behind a firewall, tunneling SSH through a proxy, Git...
Thought I’d start using Git from my workplace too. Why not! Little did I realize it would take away a lot of my time today & yesterday … For starters we have a proxy at work. Git can work with...
View ArticleNotes of PowerShell DSC course, OneGet & Chocolatey
Spent the past hour and half attending this course – Getting started with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Jump Start, by Jeffrey Snover (inventor of PowerShell) and Jason Helmick. Had to...
View ArticleQuickly find out which version of .NET you are on
I had to install WMF 3.0 on one of my Server 2008 R2 machines, a pre-requisite to which is that the machine must have .NET 4.0 (standalone installer here, Server Core installer here). So how do I find...
View ArticleFixing “The task XML contains too many nodes of the same type” error
I imported a scheduled task into Windows Task Scheduler yesterday and that had some incorrect XML because of which each time I’d open Task Scheduler it would throw the following error at me: The task...
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Cmder! Wow.
Discovered chalk. Via which I discovered Cmder, a (portable) console emulator for Windows based on ConEmu. Which is itself a console emulator for Windows. I was aware of Console2 which I have...
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Whee! Cmder can do split panes!
So exciting! According to the ConEmu documentation you can create a new split task by pressing Win+W (doesn’t work on Windows 8 because that opens the Windows Search charm instead) or from the “New...
View ArticleMicrosoft .NET Framework 3.0 failed to be turned on. Status: 0x800f0906
While installing SQL Server 2012 at work on a Server 2012 R2 machine the install kept failing. Looking at the Setup logs I noticed that whenever I’d try an install something would try and install the...
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After Windows Update KB 3061518 many websites stop working in IE
At work every time some of our IT staff would access the BES server web console, IE would fail. Not with a 404 Page not found error but with a web site cannot be found error (with helpful hints to...
View ArticleGet a list of recently installed Windows updates via the command line
In a previous post I gave a DISM command to get a list of installed Windows Updates: dism /online /Get-Packages /Format:Table While useful that command has no option of filtering results based on some...
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