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Determine Active Directory Logon Server

by Jacki Moody | Jul 11, 2014 | Active Directory, Windows

When you log on to Active Directory, it determines the “best” DC to respond to you using an algorithm. If your AD Sites and Services are not configured correctly, you could be logging into random DCs on your AD network. They could be local, or they could...

15 Tasks for New Windows 8 Workstations

by Jacki Moody | Jul 10, 2014 | Windows

These tasks I do for every Windows 8 workstation that I setup. 1) Change the time zone & Verify the time is correct 2) Enable remote management 3) Enable remote desktop 4) Install anti-virus 5) Turn off Windows Firewall 6) Give server a descriptive name following...

SQL Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.

by Jacki Moody | Jul 7, 2014 | SQL

You may get this error in SQL server when making changes to the database structure of a Microsoft SQL database: SQL Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. This occurs if the change you...

Enable and Disable Active Directory Account with PowerShell

by Jacki Moody | Jul 3, 2014 | Active Directory, PowerShell

Recently I had to create a generic active directory account for testing software. I want the account disabled when I am not using it, so I created this PowerShell script to enable and disable the account. Param( # Account...

Create Hyper-V Workstation or Server

by Jacki Moody | Jun 29, 2014 | Windows

In this example I setup Hyper-V on Windows 8.1. The steps are same to create a Hyper-V Windows server. Prerequisites: Host machine with Hyper-V installed and a network card configured. An .ISO file of your installation media. You need a fast hard drive for your VM....

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