How to get the Active Directory Replication Status tool The bad news: The AD Replication Status tool is no longer available. The Good news. We can use repadmin tools to view all incomming AD connection status. Run the following Command: repadmin /showrepl * /csv >> %temp%\showrepl.csv This will save the data to your %temp% folder […]
Products Windows 2012 R2 Std, Windows 2016 Std, Windows 2016 Datacenter, Windows 2019 Std, Windows 2019 Datacenter Description Windows updates are hanging on Downloading updates 0% for over 1 hour. Solution 1 Perform a Clean Reboot 2 Start CMD as an Administrator 3 Run the following commands from CMD as an Administrator Stop the Windows […]
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how to download files using powershell on Windows Server Core 2019, Windows Server Core 2016, or Windows Server Core 2012 The Windows Server Core is a very lightweight OS build available for free in AWS using a Tier2 Micro. The Windows Server Core OS has a […]
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to show how to audit the Event logs for File Delete operations. We will use XPath to filter for the Delete event inside the Event Data level of the XML detail. Solution: Step1: Enable file auditing from Group Policy Object. We will refer to it as GPO from […]
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to display a set of commonly used Windows Bat Scripts Check if a folder exists and create if it doesn’t if not exist “C:\Temp\InstallationLogs\” mkdir C:\Temp\InstallationLogs Iterate through a .csv file for /f “delims=,” %%a in (Computers.csv) do ( Run a .exe from a share on each computer […]
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Purpose: The purpose of this article is to display a set of commonly used Windows Powershell Scripts To recursively remove a folder that may contain too many folders for Windows to handle remove-item -path “C:\Program Files\ScienceLogic” -recurse -verbose Get System Boot Time systeminfo | find /i “Boot Time” Get all files in a folder and […]
Products Windows 2012R2 Description RSS abbreviated for Receive Side Scaling, should be enabled on a VM Server as it betters performance. Per Microsoft’s website, Virtual Receive-side scaling (RSS) is a feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 that allows the load from a virtual network adapter to be distributed across multiple virtual processors in a virtual […]
Products Windows 10, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2016 Description SMB or Server Message Block is a network file sharing protocol meant for sharing files, printers, etc, between computers. There are three versions – Server Message Block (SMB) version 1 (SMBv1), SMB version 2 (SMBv2), and SMB version 3 (SMBv3). Microsoft recommends that you disable SMB1 […]
Products Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 Description This article explains how to use the use “Windows & drivers updates blocking tool” to hide updates for Windows 10 or Windows server 2016. Windows 10 Home users cannot block Windows updates. They are automatically downloaded and installed. In theory, this is OK. However, some updates can be […]