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here are the steps if you have installed WSUS on Server 2012R2 on the Windows Internal Database to reset the Database and WSUS itself.
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Windows: Join a workgroup or domain from command line
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there are two ways to join or leave a domain. The netdom command or the Powershell Command lets add-computer and remove-computer.
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Windows: Decode Win32 Error codes
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if you have a Windows Errorcode like 0xc000021a and want to decode it to a human readable format you can use certutil.
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Powershell: En- and Decrypt string with AES256
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if you have the requierment to encrypt strings in Powershell the .NET Framework offers some classes for this case. This is a symmetric encryption. Receiver and Sender uses the same Password/Key to en- and decrypt the message.
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Linux: mount.cifs failed with host is down
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due to some security issues (Wannacry) Windows administrators are going to disable the unsecure smb1 protocol.
mount.cifs is using smb1 by default. So when you tried to connect to a Windows machine where smb1 is disabled you get an error: mount error(112): Host is down.
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