Sometimes there are situation that you need to troubleshoot Active Directory connectivity and you need to know to which server the user authenticated to. There…
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Category: Troubleshooting
Check status of Microsoft AntiMalware
Here is a quick snippet to show current status of Microsoft Antimalware on your Windows 10 computer. 12345Clear-Host Write-Host Write-Host "CURRENT STATUS " -Foregroundcolor yellow…
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Get battery health report on Windows laptop
You can gen easily two reports about your laptop battery under Windows 10. Simply press [Windows]+[R] and type [cmd]. Once in command line window you…
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Find out the current version of the Active Directory Schema
Quick one liner to find out current version of the Active Directory Schema on your network especially of you have mix of servers. Using dsquery…
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Reset Password for user in Active Directory
Quick Help Desk script tool in PowerShell to reset user password : 1234567891011121314Clear-Host Import-Module ActiveDirectory $newpwd = Read-Host "[ Enter the new password ]" -AsSecureString…
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How to activate Windows Server Core 2019 from command line
After you’ve logged into Windows Server Core, you’re presented with the Command Prompt. From there, you can activate your copy of Windows. First, you have…
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Stop opening Server Manager at logon in Windows Server 2012 R2
The Server Manager wizard provides information of installed roles and features in [easyazon_link identifier=”1118289420″ locale=”US” tag=”wn0d5-20″] Windows Server 2012 R2 [/easyazon_link]. This Server Manager wizard…
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How to repair corrupted USB storage and reset to defaults
Whenever I connect my USB to PC it says “you need to format the disk in drive before you can use it”. When I try to format, it shows the disk capacity as 662MB which is the Linux image file size and not the original size of 8GB. How do I format the USB drive and start using it like before?
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List Direct Reports to Manager in PowerShell
Here is the task for today to use [easyazon_link identifier=”1787122042″ locale=”US” tag=”wn0d5-20″] PowerShell [/easyazon_link]. I was asked to find the list of employees under a…
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How to identify which domain controller authenticated a user
You re running some troubleshooting on your network connected to [easyazon_link identifier=”1449320023″ locale=”US” tag=”wn0d5-20″] Active Directory [/easyazon_link] and have questions like: which Domain Controller authenticated…
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