How to Find the Source of Account Lockouts
So a user comes to you and says their account has locked out and you kindly unlock their account…… 5 mins later they are contacting you again to unlock their…
Common Active Directory LDAP Attributes
In this article, we will discuss Active directory LDAP attributes and match them with the friendly name you will see in Active Directory as a field. The name of an…
Should you install AV software on servers?
Antivirus software should always be the first piece of software that is to be installed on all computers. It acts a the policeman at the gate of the system overseeing…
How to use Exchange audit logging to find out who deleted mailbox items.
Recently I was approached by a senior management staff member claiming that items from his inbox were mysteriously being moved to his deleted items folder. This staff member has two…
PowerShell Commands to help better manage Active Directory
Most Sysadmins are used to utilising the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC to manage user accounts and groups. PowerShell commands can be used to reduce the time it takes…
How to remotely log off terminal services session using CMD prompt
Windows server 2000/2003 allows two remote terminal services connections for administrative purposes. Every once in a while you might get the message “You exceeded the allowed connection count” message when trying to connect…
How to Set up DFS and Folder Replication
Distributed File system or DFS replication for short is a way for us to combine our file shares across multiple servers and especially in a domain environment to allow us…
Restrict Teams Creation in Microsoft Teams
In Microsoft Teams, a Team is a space that people can come together to collaborate and to work on a shared topic. How you create and use teams may vary…
Network, Server and Application Monitoring
In this article, we will discuss setting up a network, server and application monitoring. This is a topic that is typically high on the list to all systems administrators out…
VMware: Cannot extend virtual hard drive in vSphere. Configuration greyed out.
I would like to share with you an issue I recently encountered when I logged into Vsphere to perform the simple task of extending the size of one of the…