We needed to enable SMBv1 on a clinical application server that gets data from treadmills. The treadmills uses embedded Windows XP so, unfor...

 Let's say you have a number of AD records, and you wanted to search for how many of them contain a certain value. You might do somethin...

 Audio CD name flickers on Apple Music appearing and vanishing. When you insert an Audio CD into your Mac, the name of the CD appears to app...

So you have the SID of a deleted group, but you want to know its name and other details. You can get this information provided the object is...

This somewhat of a corner case, but if it happened to us then it could happen to others. I also regard this as a bug. Losing a Doman Control...

If you need to view your MacOS Time Machine Logs: Open Terminal and use: log show --style syslog --predicate 'senderImagePath contai...

This message is appearing more and more when trying to open an application on Mac OS Catalina. My understanding is that the message relates ...

Azure provides you the ability to create custom RBAC roles, and the process bears no resemblance to any comparable process in Active Directo...

I have seen a lot of tears flowing in different forums from people that cannot get their original iPod 3rd generation on a modern Mac. I rec...

LM Hash LM Hashes are weak and archaic, an LM hash does not use a salt, and therefore any identical passwords will have identical hash val...

There is an issue with Azure Role Based access (RBAC). Depending on who you listen to, this is a bug (I agree, it is a bug). Scenario Y...

What is the difference between WebSSOLifetime versus TokenLifetime The trick to understanding this is to think of WebSSOLifetime li...

Did you know you can filter *out* events in the Windows Event Logs by Event ID? Just open the 'Filter Current Log" like you usually...

With ADUC it is easy to find the distinguished name of an AD object. DNS records are a little more hidden. Here would be an example: dc=S...

Windows 2008 RTM Network Performance Tuning: These NIC options are collectively known as  the "TCP Chimney". Originally these o...

If Need to check secure channel on a server (or indeed a workstation) you can use this command: nltest  /sc_query:MyCoolDomainName Cheer...

DCDIAG may reveal the following warning: Starting test: MachineAccount Warning:  Attribute userAccountControl of SL1CDC4 is:  0x82020 = ...

DNS Resolution DNS processes and interactions involve the communications between DNS clients and DNS servers during the resolution of DNS ...