I couldn’t find any documentation on upgrading GAM to to the latest version so here’s the quick run down I figured out. Download and install the latest version to the same location as your existing install. I did C:\GAM https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/releases/ Once complete go to the install dir and run gam-setup.bat as an admin (if on …
I’ve been using the free trial of Netwrix to find failed logins and sadly it’s way out of our budget for K-12 so I’ve been searching for another solution and can help the team. We’ve been having an uptick in AD accounts getting locked due to numerous login failed attempts. 99% of the time it’s …
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I was recently informed by David you can use BBWin on a windows server to automatically restart/start a service if the status changes to red for example. So I decided to give it a try. Print Servers (the Baine of our existence) are some of the most unreliable services we run. We run both Server …
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LAPS provides a way to automatically rotate the local Administrator password on domain joined machines every X amount of days to a random password. I’ll be installing it on one of my domain controllers. Download LAPS and Install. Download LAPS and be sure to install all the management tools also. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 Extend the AD Schema …
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Recently updated my VxRail serves and noticed I’m stuck with a warning on my cluster and a blue informational warning: vSphere HA failover operation in progress in cluster VxRail-Cluster in datacenter VxRail-Datacenter: 0 VMs being restarted, 3 VMs waiting for a retry, 0 VMs waiting for resources, 0 inaccessible vSAN VMs How to fix it …
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We’re running the Forigate v7 and have been having a hard time getting snmp to work. Typically all you need to do is go into any devices admin console, networking and enable snmp. Here is what worked for us. Setting up SNMP Log into your firewall and browse to the page below and make sure …
I’ve been having trouble using chrome extensions inside a windows 10 VM. Reinstalled Chrome, cleared the cache, disable all extensions etc. yet I still have the issue. Everything else looks fine! Normally I wouldn’t care as most of the time they’re not needed except for when I want to access some of my passwords via …
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I’ve always used a random password generator for some sub accounts that change weekly via task scheduler. The issue with that is the lower case l and 1’s depending on the systems font look very similar resulting in tickets saying the password doesn’t work. I’ve patched together this script from a few online sources and …
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After rebuilding our DHCP server our helpdesk staff told me they could no longer view it with RSAT. All they see is a red error. When you install the DHCP role on the server 2 new groups are created in Local User and Groups setting on the server. We just need to add our security …
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Todays the day, I’ve deiced to rebuild our 5yr+ old sysctr server that’s built on 2012R2. Here I wanted to document the process on bring up a new instance side by side with the existing server. The only thing missing from this which I already have configured from our previous SCCM setup is AD Schema. …
