How to Force Group Policy Update Remotely
There are a number of reasons you might want to force a group policy update either locally or remotely on a computer or server. Perhaps…
Author: Chase Smith
I am a Senior Network Engineer who has spent the last decade elbow deep in enterprise System Administration and Networking in the local government and energy sectors. I can usually be found trying to warm up behind the storage arrays in the datacenter.
Using GPResult Command to Check Group Policy
If you’ve worked with Group Policy within Active Directory for more than a day, chances are you’ve needed to know what group policy objects were…
How to Check Windows Server Uptime
Like many things in the Microsoft Windows universe, there are several ways to check Up Time of your systems. Fortunately, they are all easy and…
Powershell: Export Active Directory Users to CSV
Exporting Users from Active Directory is a really simple task, even if you’re not very familiar with PowerShell. As long as you have an account…
Force a Cisco Switch to Use Non-Cisco SFP Modules
If you’re setting up a Cisco Catalyst switch, such as 1000, 2960X, 3560X, 9200, 9300, etc…, and you insert a non-Cisco branded SFP into one…
View & Unlock Open Files in Windows Server 2016 and Up
If you’re poking through a modern Windows Server OS such as 2016, 2019, or 2022 and wondering where the Share and Storage Management went then…
How to Use Repadmin to Monitor Active Directory Health
The replication of active directory data between your domain controllers is a critical function. If replication breaks and you don’t catch it you’re in for…
Using Account Lockout Tool to Troubleshoot AD Lockout
If you’ve been any form an IT Admin for more than a month then you’ve probably ran into locked out Active Directory accounts. Usually a…
Bulk Import Users into Active Directory from CSV
When it comes to IT, automation is your friend. Creating users in your active directory domain is no exception. Not only does bulk creation of…
Upgrade Cisco IOS Switch Step-by-Step
Just as patching Windows is regular event so should be updating your Cisco networking equipment. New updates not only fix security holes and bugs but…
How to Use Nslookup Command in Windows
Nslookup (short for name server lookup) is an excellent network admin command-line tool for querying DNS (domain name systems) to find the associations between domain…
How to Query FSMO Roles Quickly & Easily
Flexible Single Master Operation Roles (FSMO Roles) are an incredibly important aspect of Active Directory. When you first deploy a Windows Server domain controller on…