With Azure and the Container hype, Microsoft is pushing developers and system administrators to automate everything. The graphical Windows platform has become easy to automate with Powershell and the latest versions of the OS. But, already faced with huge server pools decades ago, some of us already had automation workarounds […]
AS you may be aware, MIcrosoft never published a SP2 for WIndows 2008R2 and WIndows 7. There was the enterprise rollup and now there is a convenience rollup. The enterprise rollup had 90+ hotfixes, whereas the convenience rollup is replacing 120+ updates, so even the marketing guys at Microsoft don’t […]
Often sought on the Internet, rarely complete, here is for a domain controller firewall ports to open so your Windows domain-controller is able to contact the other domain controllers it is depending on for proper replication UDP/123 for time synchronization, as in a domain by default the W32Time of a […]
This post has for goal to list all techniques you can use to get remote access to Windows. Depending on your situation (white hacking, strange corporate DMZ, …) this could help you to test and accomplish your various goals: copying a file, running a process, etc. PSExec PsExec is a […]
When trying to get rid of IPv6 for good or mostly bad read reasons, most searches on the Internet will link to KB article 929852 when it comes to prefer IPv4 over IPv6. Basically, you must update under HKLM\System\currentcontrolset\services\tcpip6\parameters, the DisabledComponents key and use a value of 20. However this […]
Having multiple server names on Windows server or client is nice feature you may want to have when you are migrating applications, using servers as part of web server farms, etc. As opposed to the Linux hostname where names can be arbitrarily changed, names for a machine in the Windows […]
Granting event log rights to non-administrators wsa challenging in Windows 2003, becomes easier in Windows 2008 (R2). However fine-tuned access still requires playing with Security Descriptors reading and writing. Event Log Rights Case #1: Read Access only For Windows 2008, If you just want to grant regular read access, the […]
Often sought on the Internet, rarely complete, here is for member server firewall ports to open for your Windows domain-joined or soon-to-be-joined machine to be able to contact the domain controllers it is depending on: UDP/123 for time synchronization, as in a domain by default the W32Time of a member […]
Here’s your problem for the day: your active directory files are on the system drive, perhaps because you inherited some Active Directory domain controllers, perhaps because a junior Windows system administrator did the DCPromo… You’re a professional Windows system administrator and you want to have them located elsewhere, say D: […]
This post is somehow a sequel to the DNS on Windows for Unix (and other) guys. Using the DNS Management Console, you already have a set of useful tabs for troubleshooting purposes: Monitoring also you to perform simple test queries: Debug Logging is more interesting as it works as a […]
