Archive 25/05/2018

25/05/2018

VMworld 2018 registration is open! Take…

By Steve in VMware, VMworld Tag VMware, VMworld, VMworld2018

Any of my contacts going to VMworld 2018? Registration is open with early-bird rates VMworld 2018 registration is open! Take... No matter what path you’re on, you’ll discover the technology,…

24/05/2018

VMware vCenter Single Sign-On – Invalid Credentials – Native Platform Error code 1765328360

By Steve in ESXi, VCSA, VMware Tag 1765328360, Invalid Credentials, Native Platform Error, Single Sign-On, SSO, vCenter Server, VCSA 6.5

Logging in to the vCenter Server Appliance fails with the error: Failed to authenticate user or Failed to authenticate principal for tenant vsphere.local 6.5 update1 KB on issue https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147174 Logging…

23/05/2018

Sysinternals – Permissions, LoggedOn, Endpoints

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell, Windows 7 Tag LoggedOn, Permissions, PowerShell, Sysinternals

How to Get the permission on folders: PowerShell: Get-ChildItem | Get-ACL Path | Owner | Access or more in depth use: GUI based : Run AccessEnum against the drive or…

21/05/2018

Client failed to RDP to RDS server following Windows Server Patching – CredSSP updates for CVE-2018-0886

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Windows 7 Tag authentication error, CredSSP, CredSSP encryption, CVE-2018-0886, Oracle remediation

CredSSP updates for CVE-2018-0886 That Monday morning issue when servers were patched on a Sunday... All Windows 10 clients fail to RDP to the RDS server following Windows Server Patching.…

21/05/2018

Check / Set / Sync Time Source for Windows Servers

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Tag NTP, Sync, Time, W32TM, Windows

To set the time ( Tested against Windows 2016) Launch CMD as administrator exampled c:\time 09:00:00 AM - This will set the time to 9am Note a time source…

04/05/2018

Get-AdUser -Filter {Multiple Filters Complex } -Properties | Export to CSV

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Powershell Tag Active Directory, Filters, Get-ADUser, PowerShell, Windows, Windows 2016

#Import AD modules import-module servermanager Add-WindowsFeature -Name "RSAT-AD-PowerShell" -IncludeAllSubFeature #List AD user accounts and show DisplayName, Email, Title and export to CSV Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties DisplayName, EmailAddress, Title |…

02/05/2018

Get a list of inactive computers which have not logged on to the domain in the last 12 weeks

By Steve in DS Commands, Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Tag Active Directory, DSQUERY, Scripting, Windows

# Inactive computers ( this will include systems not regularly used) # Launch command prompt as administrator and run the following commands Dsquery computer -inactive 12 -limit 500 # Lists…

02/05/2018

Get a list of active computers which have logged on to the domain in the last 7 days

By Steve in Microsoft, Microsoft Server 2016, Powershell Tag Active, Active Directory, Computer Accounts, PowerShell

# Trying to work out is servers, laptops or desktops have been decommissioned # Try this script # Get a list of active computers which have logged on to the…