Windows system administration is very mouse driven and to reach all tools you need to browse through Windows explorer. If you are like me and prefer to log on a limited privilege account and use Runas to perform admin tasks, you can open these consoles with the .msc file names. Here is a list of admin tools with their .msc file names. domain.msc: AD Domains and Trusts ...
Here a few web-links to interesting web apps. It covers stuff about password security and checking if web sites are down, etc etc. Down For Everyone or Just Me: If you're getting an error when visiting a certain site, it could be down or something could be wrong on your end. To see which ...
So I have signed up 0ink.net to use the CloudFlare service. CloudFlare is a reverse proxy service that is supposed to speed up and improve web server security. This is done by: globally distributed reverse proxy cache network ...
When using virtualisation it is very common to create template VMs that can be cloned from. This makes deployment much easier than having to install a new VM from scratch. Unfortunately, the cloned VMs lack any Active Directory memberships and the VMs have to be manually added to the AD domain. For automated deployment scenarios this is less than desirable. This recipe intends to solve that issue in a ...