Move FSMO Roles Using PowerShell
Rather than kicking it old school and using the classic tools such as AD Users & Computers (dsa.msc) to move FSMO roles, PowerShell makes it nice and easy to get …
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How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange–Updated 2022
Back in the year 2014 the post How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange was released to help create TLS certificates. One of the main use cases was …
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90
Welcome to 2022 and a new release of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) version 2.90!
The Sysinternals blog lists the following changes to RDCMan which are well worth reviewing from …
Change Certificate Friendly Name To Unique Value
Imagine that you have two certificates installed, but for whatever reason the same friendly name was used for both of them. You can certainly identity each of them by comparing …
IIS SMTP Virtual Server Component No Longer Supported
Please consider this a quick PSA (Public Service Announcement) as it is still common that I run into environments with the IIS SMTP service still running and processing mail.
While …
Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.81
Finally we have good news for all fans of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) tool! It has risen from the ashes, and is now part of Sysinternals.
Over the …
Create Azure Az VM Using Existing UnManaged VHD
The days change, but sometimes the issues stay the same. This is a redux of an existing post where there was an issue back in 2016 when I was not …
Azure Firewall Rule Not Working – Orange Triangle
The below is from a customer situation where an Azure Network Security Group (NSG) firewall rule entry was not working as they expected. This was was created to allow RDP …
Faulting Module Name NTdll.dll
One of my hosted lab environments ran into series of issues, and after unplanned maintenance there were multiple problems to resolve. The below error with a faulting ntdll.dll module was …
Intermittent Azure DNS Resolution Issues With With New Domain Controller
The default option for DNS resolution on an Azure virtual network is to use the Azure DNS service. This is perfectly fine for regular Internet requests, if you need …