Ivan’s Corner: a sysadmin thoughts
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Blackberry 12/BES 12
So true! “The combination of Android and BES 12? Sucks…”
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Windows 10 Privacy
If you are using Windows 10, do yourself a favor and just use this tool http://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/
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SharePoint 2013 Instalation Tips
Studying for SharePoint 2013 exam, I’ve decided to install it in my lab and as usual I had some issues. I was thinking to use SQL server on premises used for SCCM 2012 R2 test lab, but it is 32-bit, therefore, unusable. Due to the limited resources (You know, RAM goes first) I ended installing…
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Create an SCCM collection containing inactive clients excluding certain computers
Create a new collection and use the following query to select inactive agents, the part in bold is to exclude all computers with name stating with PCNAME% from it if needed, % is equal to * in sql so if your naming convention is pcname01, pcname02 and so on pcname06% will exclude pcname060, pcname061, pcname0600…
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Don’t Ask……
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive” – Howard Thurman
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Redirect New Workstations to a certain OU
Find the Distinguished Name of the OU to which you want to redirect all new computers dsquery ou -name <OU-Name> EXAMPLE – dsquery ou –name “DOMAIN WORKSTATIONS” Use redircmp Distinguished Name found with dsquery Run powershell/cmd as an administrator
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Windows 10 Nvidia Drivers Issue with Skylake
Yesterday I had a morning surprise by my PC, when I turned it on all I got was white pixelated flickering caused by GPU drivers update (automated in windows 10) Safe mode and all of the advanced repair stuff wasn’t working so out of options I just used “Reset my PC”. In order to avoid…
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Tested guide for upgrade 2003 domain to 2012
Raise domain/forest functional level to 2003 Domain is raised from AD users and computers Forest is raised from AD Domains and Trusts Prepare AD for 2012 The command adprep is located on your Server 2012 disk under the \support\adprep Run in cmd adprep /forestprep If KB919151 is not installed adprep /forestprep will fail with “ADPREP.EXE…
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SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:wrong version number or similar
After experiencing a pfsense log overflow with SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:wrong version number, SSL: 1 error:140760FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol and similar errors for a while I finally figured a way to reduce them to the more reasonable level by simply checking Disable webConfigurator redirect rule in the advanced settings. There are still some errors in the log though, however,…
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RWMC
Tested…. and it works on 7, 8.1, 10, server 2012 r2 https://github.com/giMini/RWMC
Got any book recommendations?