You would think this would be easy, but nope. So first select the ‘Text‘ selecting tool and select your shape; Now hit escape, an you should now see the 4 dots to resize your text box;
Remote update GPO
I have learned another good trick. Updating GPO’s remotely, no extra tools. I am not sure which version brought this feature, but you can now do it in GPO Management console. Enjoy the graphic;
Windows PDC Time
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 […]
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’ […]
Add Windows Media Stuff to N Version Windows 10
I love the N version, nice and clean and smooth. but sometimes you need to add some of the parts back. With this patch, you can; KB3133719 I got the following table from here, that tells you what is in it; The media-related features that are not provided in N editions of Windows 10 include, […]
New Powershell command Get-PerimeterMessageTrace
So I want to put this out there, because I googled the crap out to this hand got zero information. When doing an exchange message trace, it was used to see incoming email. going to have to explore this more, and find out what it really can do. PS C:\Windows\system32> PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-PerimeterMessageTrace […]
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 […]
Offline WSUS Patches
I was asking this question in several forums, and never got a good answer. I then stumbled across this while looking for something else. http://www.wsusoffline.net/docs/
Offline COLD Backups
No one will ever convince me that backups to the cloud, or online hard disks is the best way to go. Not ever. https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/02/12/1942248/hackers-wipe-us-servers-of-email-provider-vfemail Tapes or offline drives. Always.
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 […]