Creating Group Policy Central Store
Why would we want to create a central store? This syncs all policy definitions to all Domain controllers so that if you update or add admx files they are available on all domain controllers and …
Setting time on a server
net stop w32time w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:”0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org 3.pool.ntp.org” /reliable:yes net start w32time w32tm /resync
Creating One Way Selective Authentication Domain trust
1- Create DNS stubzone for each other domains or set up conditional forwarding. – New Zone on DNS – Choose stub zone – To all DNS servers running on domain controllers in this domain/forest – …
NPS Radius 802.1X authentication fails after TLS 1.0 is disabled
Added the following registry entry to the NPS server HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\RasMan\PPP\EAP\13 New REG_DWORD named TlsVersion Changed the Value to 0xf00 which sets tls to 1.1 and 1.2 otherwise it could be set as below. TLS 1.0 …
Unable to access administrative shares with local admin
Local user accounts (Security Account Manager user account) When a user who is a member of the local administrators group on the target remote computer establishes a remote administrative connection by using the net use * …
Finding Certificate Authority Server in a Domain
Running the following should open a prompt with the available RootCAs for that domain certutil -config – -ping
Testing Email connectivity with telnet
Here are all the commands without interruption: telnet mail.com 25 Trying 69.63.149.30… Connected to mail.com (69.63.149.30). Escape character is ‘^]’. 220 mail.port25.com (PowerMTA(TM) v4.0) ESMTP service ready EHLO server.example.com 250-mail.port25.com says hello 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING …
Physical 2 Virtual BSOD 0x0000007B
Troubleshooting If the server comes up with the following BSOD 0x0000007B similar to below Boot the virtual machine to a Windows server CD Click Next on the language selection screen Select repair your computer Click …
Restore Mailbox database on a restored server
Grab the latest copy of the mailbox database and transaction log files On the restored server dismount the database you will be restoring. Copy the newest Database and transaction logs to the restored server. (these …
Troubleshooting Azure AD Connect Password Synchronization
If a client calls in or you notice that Password Sync is showing no recent synchronization like in the image below there are a few things to check for. Make sure Azure AD Connect …