I cannot begin to tell you how this has hounded me through my career, but I am happy to make this post, that I think has 99% of the answers. #1 thing that has caused me issues, not my trouble shooting order or the GPO settings. The GPO on the PDC MUST be removed, all […]
Category: Howto
Deny a GPO to Users or Groups
I have looked for this for a LONG time, and I was happy to run across this great post. I will not steal, so you can find it below, where he does an excellent job describing it. But in case something happens to it, the jist is to use delegation to set a ‘deny GPO’ […]
Hardening Windows 10
I was looking to see about required services and such and ran across this web site; https://hardenwindows10forsecurity.com/ I was very dubious of it, as the web seems very simple, but it still had great information. I did contact the owner, and I have used the link, and I will say at this time this appears […]
Winlogon.log Missing
I stumbled across this while trouble shooting a problem with GPO’s in Windows Server 2016. My GPO’s we stopping half way through applying because there was a n error. There was an error in the RSOP, with a surprising amount of detail on how to correct it, only that all the documentation was wrong […]
Visio 2016 Install with Office 365
When trying to install with an MSI the Visio package with an already existing ‘Click-to-run’ install of Office 365, you will often get the error of: We found a problem!We’re sorry, Microsoft Office installer encountered a problem because you have these Click-to-Run installer based Office programs installed on your computer:Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus – en-usWindows […]
Close Telnet Command Window
Use CTRL and ] to close a successful Telnet window. I often use “telnet server ####” to check if the port is open between servers, but can never remember how to close the connection if it works. this is my reminder 🙂
Cisco Phone Firmware upgrade CUCM
Recently we had an issue with Platonics headsets working fine, then disconnecting after a short time. After extensive trouble shooting, we found that firmware was the culprit. Here is what I did to update the firmware for individual or single phones; First get the firmware you need, in my case I had to have Cisco […]
ForcePoint Basics
This is a stupid simple one. Working within ForcePoint URL web filter, I could not find out how to add an exception. This will not go into that so much as the trick to get to it. That trick is the “Super Administrator” account. It was not obvious to me that this switch was needed, […]