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 […]
Windows Commands PDF
Not all of them (nslookup) but damn near all of them
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 […]
Exchange Powershell Context
I had a frustrating problem, where powershell was not returning the correct results that I was expecting, it was missing a 95% of the data from a simple get-mailbox command. It turns out, that running exchange powershell commands from the “Exchange Management Shell” sets the environment to the local server, even if you use the […]
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, […]
CIA Compromised – Vault 7
I have been surprised how many people do not know about this, mostly the non nerd population. Here I am just posting a link to a reference; Vault 7: WikiLeaks reveals CIA’s secret hacking tools and spy operations
Show all Domain Computers that are Online
Quickie one liner; get-adcomputer -filter * | Where { Test-Connection $_.name -count 1 -quiet } | Select @{Name=”Computername”;Expression={$_.Name}} Reference : https://www.petri.com/test-network-connectivity-powershell-test-connection-cmdlet