Ever had to change a domain administrator’s password and had the sinking feeling that some bozo had setup a Windows service to run as that user. If you only have a couple servers it isn’t that big a deal to check each manually, but if you have a lot it can be a problem. […]
I’ve written several PowerShell scripts to help customers adjust permissions to their directory structures when migrating from other file servers(Linux/Samba, Novell OES/Netware, etc). Part of these scripts includes assigning ownership for the user. While this tends to take a long time quotas and file reporting are worthless if the administrator that copied everything is assigned […]
So I logged into a server that was setup by another administrator using RDP to configure some software. For whatever reason it is requesting a reboot, so I let it reboot before I start my work. After the server comes back up I attempt to connect and get a “The connection cannot continue because the […]
Frequently while performing network assessments I need to assemble a list of all the programs installed on servers. Going to Add/Remove Programs and writing it down is a tedious process. Installing applications like Belarc Advisor is a bit more intrusive then I want to be on another companies servers. After some research today I found two […]
Recently I needed to get a Cisco ASA 5510 to use a RADIUS Server on Server 2008 to authenticate Active Directory users for VPN access. The ASA was already configured to use a Server 2003 RADIUS server, so much of the below was just replicating the existing configuration on a 2008 server. I suspect many […]
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