List Users and Their SIDs
An incredibly useful one-liner: wmic useraccount get disabled,domain,name,sid Run that from an administrative command prompt while logged in as a domain admin to list all the users and their SIDs. …
FilterManager Event ID 3 During Backups
I have a 2-week-old installation of Server 2012 Essentials. Windows Server Backup runs twice per day. Every time the backup runs, I get about five of these errors in the …
Index Microsoft Office Files for Windows Search on Server 2012
After setting up Server 2012 Essentials, I discovered that the native Windows Search indexes .doc, .docx, .ppt, and .xls files, but not .pptx or .xlsx files.
Fake Facebook Notifications
It seems that fake notification emails from social networking sites are the #1 way that spammers and virus writers try to lure you to their sites. Here’s an example of …
Can’t Sign Code after Changing Windows Domain
I recently created a new Windows domain for my network with the same name as the old domain. I migrated the profile on my XP development machine using the very …
MS DTC Can’t Connect after Server 2012 Transition
I recently transitioned from SBS 2008 to a clean install of Server 2012 Essentials. Most things went smoothly, but one issue took a lot of work to resolve: on an …
Delete Old Windows Server Backups
A client uses Windows Server Backup to back up a small Hyper-V server running Windows Server 2008 R2. Today free space on the backup drive F: dropped below 100GB of …
Convert a Select Drop-Down Box to an Autocomplete in Rails
I created a nice select drop-down box in Ruby on Rails 3.2.8 using SimpleForm 2.0.2 and Twitter Bootstrap 2.0.3, with authentication from CanCan 1.6.8. Since there are quite a few …
SSD Testing
I was surprised today after installing a Kingston V+200 SSD that the Vista disk benchmark only improved from 5.2 with the spindle disk to 5.9 with the SSD. Called Kingston …
Converting Go Daddy DNS Records for DNS Made Easy
When you export a DNS zone from Go Daddy, there is some unusual formatting. IF you don’t fix it before importing it into DNS Made Easy (and probably other hosts), …