• WSUS

    WSUS – BITSAdmin tool

    11th May 2019 /

    BITSAdmin is a command-line tool that you can use to create download or upload jobs and monitor their progress. For example, to list all BITS jobs, you can issue the command bitsadmin /list /verbose. Here’s a screenshot of sample output for that command. No BITS queue job: For More link

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  • AD

    Finding Domain Controllers and Global Catalogs via CMD

    10th May 2019 /

    Domain controllers and global catalog servers are represented in DNS as SRV records. You can query SRV records using nslookup by setting the type=SRV. nslookup Default Server: pugazh.in Address: 10.0.0.10 set type=SRVThis query retrieves all domain controllers from domain DNS. _ldap._tcp.<Domain DNSNames> This query retrieves global catalogs, but forest-wide. _gc._tcp.<Forest DNS Name> Find the domain controllers or global catalogs that are in a particular site _ldap._tcp.._sites.<Domain DNSNames> _gc._tcp.._sites.<Forest DNS Name>

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  • DHCP

    DHCP client behavior during restart if DHCP server is down

    5th May 2019 /

    If DHCP client have got IP from DHCP server and it has time left before lease expire, if If client restarts and the server is unavailable what happen in this scenario? If client is not reachable DHCP server at time of startup, it tries to ping default gateway that was assigned previously. If default gateway responds that client assumes that it is still in same network and hence keeps on using IP address (Remember lease time is still left). If client can’t get response from gateway, it will consider itself to be out of network and hence will auto configure (put APIPA address) itself. Meanwhile, client will keep on searching…

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  • AD

    Troubleshooting trusts

    5th May 2019 /

    Troubleshooting Trusts What problem are you having? Clients are unable to access resources in a domain outside of the forest. Trust errors between servers or workstations. Trust errors between Windows NT 4.0 and Active Directory domains. After upgrading a Windows NT 4.0 domain with existing trusts to Active Directory domains, you encounter various trust-related problems. Cannot connect to a domain controller running Windows 2000. Clients are unable to access resources in a domain outside of the forest. Cause:  A failure has occurred on the external trust between the domains. Solution:  Reset and verify the trust between the domains. The PDC emulator master must be available for a trust to be successfully reset. See also:  Verify a trust; Operations master…

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  • AD

    Troubleshooting schema

    5th May 2019 /

    Troubleshooting schema What problem are you having? Unable to modify or extend the schema. Unable to add attributes to a class. Unable to connect to a domain controller running Windows 2000 from the Active Directory Schema snap-in. Unable to find or run the Active Directory Schema snap-in. Search for new and updated information. Or, your question does not match any of those listed above. Unable to modify or extend the schema. Cause:  The schema operations master is not available. The domain controller that currently holds the schema master role is offline or network connectivity between you and the schema master is inoperable. Solution:  Restore the availability of the schema master by fixing the…

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  • IIS

    The RPC Server Is Unavailable for IISRESET

    5th May 2019 /

    When run “iisreset (server name) /restart” to restart IIS services on that remote server. But command gives below error message.>iisreset myserver /restartThe RPC Server is unavailable. After turn off Windows Firewall on my server and now everything is fine. This reveals that actually iisreset was blocked by one of the rules.

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  • AD,  IIS

    Delegate Application Creation for Non-Admininistrator accounts

    4th May 2019 /

    The Web Deployment Tool provides a way to delegate application creation to non-Administrator Windows users or IIS users. This blog covers how to configure this particular delegated setting. If you have not yet set up some users, or are not familiar with remote administration, I highly recommend going through this walkthrough: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/159/configuring-remote-administration-and-feature-delegation-in-iis-70/ before trying out these steps. Server Admin Steps 1. Install the Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy) Use the Web Platform Installer (can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx) Run and choose Web Deployment Tool 1.0 and click Install. This will also pull in any dependencies you don’t already have on your system. NOTE: This might take a while if you are missing a lot…

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