Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

LDAP Query to find all Windows Servers in a Domain

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Here a quick tutorial on how to grab all the Windows Servers out of your domain: 1 ) Open Active Directory Users and Computers MMC. 2 ) Expand AD Users and Computers. 3 ) Expand the domain you want to create the query in. 4 ) Right click on Saved Queries, Select New->Query. 5 ) ...

Because of an error in data encryption, this session will end

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_128" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Because of an error in data encryption, this session will end"][/caption] An aggravating situation with a simple solution. I have a brand new out-of-the-box Windows 2008 server that will not maintain a terminal services RDP session for a lousy two minutes without a "Because of an error ...

Script to fix duplicate SMS/SCCM GUID’s

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I recently had an interesting issue come about with a grip of old school legacy machines scattered around several offices that contained identical disk images and SMS/SCCM agent GUID's. The unintended consequences of this situation are computers improperly referenced in a collection plan. In addition machines were improperly re-imaged and ...

GPO Template for Read Write SNMP community

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I'm am in the process of deploying Dell's OpenManage System Management solution to manage the hardware, firmware and drivers on all of our Dell servers and SNMP read/write communities are required. In addition my plan calls for rolling out HP's System Insight Manager (SIM) which also requires the SNMP communities. ...

Microsoft Certification - Guaranteed Certified!

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I've tried other certification sites but this one seems to be the best. They include a PDF of each exam with all possible answers and questions. They also have a timed test engine that simulates a real world test environment. Give them a shot, what have you got to lose ...