I brought up a snapshot of a Windows Server 2003 R2 guest today and could not login to the domain. After further review I found the server had lost its static […]
To delegate the ability to enable and disable user accounts in Active Directory: Launch Active Directory Users and Computers with administrative credentials Right click on the OU where you want […]
To export a list of all computers and non domain controller servers in an Active Directory OU, use dsquery.exe. For example, to export all computers in mydomain.com’s servers OU to […]
Today when I established a telnet session to a host on port 80 from my Windows XP machine, I was unable to see any commands I typed echoed on the […]
I’ve written in the past about how to extract MSI files at the Windows command prompt, and how to extract the .msi files and edit them using UniExtract and Orca. […]
The following events were listed in the Windows 2003 event log when one of our second level help desk staff connected to the server console via RDP: Event 1521 Source […]
I had two identically configured Windows servers, one that would allow remote copy/paste from the server to the client via RDP, and one that wouldn’t. I finally took the time […]
Normally when a Windows workstation or server is locked, you’ll see something similar to the following Windows Security message: This computer is in use and has been locked. Only DOMAIN\USER […]
I was running a scheduled task on a Windows 2003 server that called a script that ran as a non-administrator on the server. The service account that the script ran […]
Last week I attempted to add a scheduled task to my Windows 2008 server using schtasks.exe. The syntax I used was: schtasks /create /S server /U DOMAIN\ACCOUNT /P password /SC […]