Reading Time: 3 minutes Every Sysadmin has had to troubleshoot group policies at least once. I know I have had to do this many, many times in the past. One of the first tools I go to when troubleshooting group policy from a client Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have noticed that there is a lot of confusion around how to name an Active Directory Domain primarily because the best practices have changed. Picking a name for your Active Directory Domain should be planned carefully as it is Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Microsoft released this update to fix a man in the middle attack using Group Policy Update, unfortunately it appears that it has also changed the behaviour in how Group Policy is applied. If you use security filtered Group Policy that Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently I have been tidying up Active Directory. We have a lot of users that the helpdesk have disabled but not removed, they have not even moved them to a new OU. Because of this I decided to manually remove Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes It is always good practice to keep you Active Directory clean. One easy way to keep your Active Directory clean is by removing stale computer accounts periodically. I have always found that when Windows machines are disjoined from a domain, Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Windows Server 2012 Microsoft introduced a new feature that allows us to clone domain controllers. This helps us sysadmins to quickly restore a domain controller in an event of failures (when we have one left) and it also helps us to Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes What is a Group Policy Central Store? The Group Policy Central Store is a repository of ADMX and ADML files that are stored in the SYSVOL folder of your domain. Why use a Central Store? If like me you have Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently at work, we have been making sure all our servers are fully patched and have no known vulnerabilities in them. We use a tool called Nessus, that scans the servers for any known vulnerabilities. And they were all coming Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute After I upgraded to windows 10 and install the RSAT tools I was ready to start managing users sessions, but tsadmin was nowhere to be found. After doing some googling I found out Microsoft removed it from Windows Server 2012. Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute So your trying to upgrade some domain joined computers to windows 10 and you keep getting this message… Don’t panic! There is an easy work around for this. All you have to do is use the windows media creation tool, Read more…