Using ipconfig: Breakdown of Commands and Options
The ipconfig command is built into the Windows 11 and Windows Server operating systems and provides valuable info about your computer’s network settings. The base…
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How Update Cisco Router using USB Drive
If you have a Cisco IOS Router or Switch that you need to update via USB, you’re in the right place. Copying your firmware image…
How to Capture Packets Continuously with Wireshark and Dumpcap
Need to know an easy way to capture packets for extended periods of time and save them as small .pcap or .pcapng files? Well you’re…
Using RUNAS Command to Run as Another User
For security reasons, it’s important that you don’t use the same account for daily tasks (like logging into your workstation and work on documents and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How to Reboot or Shutdown a Remote Computer
At some point most of us will run into the need to restart or shutdown a remote computer or server that we don’t have console…