Windows tips, howtos, scripts
Hi,
since Windows 7 respectively Windows 2008R2 it has the ability to start a windows service with a trigger. Some Services, like dnscache, starts or stops on demand.
A customer had the problem that sometimes, after an automatic restart (on idle) of the DNS Client Service, Windows won’t register its name in DNS anymore. A manual register with
C:\> ipconfig /registerdns
was necessary each time.
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Hi,
short post today:-)
nltest is a builtin tool in Windows to query lots of AD information.
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Hi,
the time command in Windows gets or sets the system time. If you need an equivalent to the linux time command – which measure the execution time of a given command – you can use the powershell commandlet Measure-Command. Limitation is that only the time can measure how long the command execution runs, not splited into user, system and realtime.
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Hi,
by default Bitlocker could only activated when a TPM chip is physically present.
If you want to use Bitlocker without a TPM module you must change your (local) policy. Open the Group Policy Object Editor (gpedit.msc), navigate to
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Hi,
here are the code snippets to list all members of an Active Directory Group.
Some constants
# Define LDAP search root, the Global catalog of the domain $sLDAPSearchRoot="LDAP://yourDomain.com:3268" # The Groupname to looking for $sGroupName="USR_GRP_IN_AD"
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