You run DCDiag and it returns a failure that names can not be resolved.
testing server: default-first-site-name\mydomain
starting test: connectivity
the host 7397e120-1c8d-4f2d-b8cb-d829d16d949a._msdcs.mydomain.local could not be resolved to an
ip address. check the dns server, dhcp, server name, etc
although the guid dns name
(7397e120-1c8d-4f2d-b8cb-d829d16d949a._msdcs.mydomain.local) couldn’t be
resolved, the server name (myhost.mydomain.local) resolved to the ip
address (192.168.1.5) and was… Continue reading
Many WAN connections can vary in quality and latency, and often times these two characteristics will manifest themselves in disconnected terminal services sessions. By doing two relatively easy registry hacks, you can reduce these disconnects and improve the overall experience of your users.
Keep Alives:
In the registry at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server, create or edit the DWORD value of KeepAliveEnable and set it to 1. This will… Continue reading
VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor Script
From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.
This script uses the SDK provided by VMWare to query the ESX host and return a good or bad variable. If the hardware test fails then the script grabs the log of the test and uploads it to… Continue reading
Active Directory Health Monitor Script
From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.
The Active Directory Health Monitor Agent Procedure executes DCDiag on your Windows Active Directory server and captures any failures reported. The script then makes a unique event log entry into the Windows Application Event Log under the Application Events that can then… Continue reading
So you think your missing the Previous Versions Tab when you open windows explorer, right mouse click and select properties on a Windows 2003 server. The reason for this is that Windows Server Explore only supports the Shadow Copy “Revert” feature when connecting to a local drive using Windows Explorer. To get the “Previous Versions Tab” you should access the the drive as a UNC path in Windows Explorer. The… Continue reading
VMware vSphere vCenter Server 5.1 now uses a new SSO (Single Sign On) service to authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory when deploying vCenter. If you do not install this services and configure it for AD then you will not be able to use your domain accounts with vCenter 5.1 During the initial install you may get errors when installing SSO. KB 2034374 reports that a error of ” Error 29155 Identity source discovery… Continue reading
Microsoft made some changes to the network printing security in Windows 7 and as a result, many non-admin users are not able to install network printers with an Access Denied message.
I did some research on this today, and found a solution. We just need to make a new GPO on the domain level for each client network that is experiencing this problem. These are newer GPO extensions, so… Continue reading
Blank e-mail bodies being sent from Outlook when Save and Send feature is used.
Are you having strange problems where on occasion a random contact in outlook will disappear from your contacts but you can still see that contact on your IPhone or when users create Word documents, then select “save and send,” “send via e-mail” then “send as attachment.” They then write a short note in the body of the e-mail… Continue reading
You may have gotten a pop up on Windows that says your network resource is no longer available after a password change or password expired notice and while using Network Neighborhood. During troubleshooting you find that others can access share, the server is pingable but you can not access any share on system and it feels like XP thinks the server is not there.
I have found that this… Continue reading
