Month: March 2019

How to migrate DNS Server

The Windows Server 2012 wizard normally performs this task automatically. Thus, the following steps may…

How to set UniFi controller as a Windows service

Download the software: https://www.ui.com/download/unifi/ Close any instances of the UniFi software on the controller Open…

Update Root Hints on the DNS Server

You can use root hints to prepare servers that are authoritative for nonroot zones so…

Set up ESX with QNAP iSCCI targets

1. Download Qfinder: http://download.qnap.com/webstart/QNAPQfinder_Windows.exe 2. Login as admin / admin; then, set a new password…

SonicWall Setup Notes

Initialization: Reset device and access it via 192.168.168.168 (default), default login is Admin/password Check firmware…

DNS Bypass

Click on start - run - type "ncpa.cpl" - press enter Double click on the…

Quick 1-liner Generate List of Active Directory users

# Discover domain controller:echo %LOGONSERVER%# Display Users:dsquery user -limit 0 | dsget user -display -dept…

How to recreate user profile on Windows 7

Method 1: You can do it with the User Profiles dialog in System Properties: Log…

Windows 2012 Advantages

1. Dynamic Access Control: automatically apply access restriction to certain files that contain sensitive information,…

Analyze BSOD Dump File

Install Debugging Tools for Windows as Standalone Component As Administrator, run CMD cd "C:\Program Files…

Daily database backup.bat

@echo offif %USERNAME%==Administrator echo you are administratorset RAREXEC="C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRar.exe"set RAREXEC="C:\Program Files\WinRAR\Rar.exe"set LOGFILE="c:\sys\backup.log"SET ARG1=%1IF EXIST D:\…

Script to Disable User Accounts

accountsToDisable.txtorangeapplepeartermed user REM disableAccounts.batREM read accountsToDisable.txt and convert names into proper DN entries. Save result…

Script to Backup Exchange Server

REM exchange.txtD:\Exchange2010\mailbox\TempDatabaseD:\Exchange2010\mailbox\Mailbox-Database-20150403D:\Exchange2010\mailbox\Public Folder Database 1998117930 REM exchangebackup.batecho offnet use S: \\FILESERVER01\backups\EXCHANGE-2010REM -------------------------------------------------------REM PARSE THE DATE…

Script to use WinRAR for backups

REM winrar_backup.batecho offSET FNAME=KIMCONNECTSET LOGFILE=\\FILESERVER01\backup\ads-02-backup.txtIF EXIST V:\ (NET USE V: /DELETE)net use v: \\FILESERVER01\backupIF %ERRORLEVEL%…

How to migrate DHCP Server

1. Run these commands on the existing DHCP server (currently Windows Server 2003)net stop dhcpservercd…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Disaster Recovery

Features: 1. Multi-regions: compliance with Section 404 of COBIT requirements 2. Amazon S3 with redundancy, versioning, multi-factor…

DB2 AS400 to Microsoft SQL Conversion

SQL Ways Wizard: Enter ODBC data source, username, and password >> press Next Set Target…

Shoretel: Why do we need an inventory of MAC addresses?

Answer: systems such are Shoretel's licensing are dependent on the MAC address of the original…

Command line to stop, start, or restarting services

- Discover service names: #net start - Restart specific service: net stop {service_name} && net…