Posted by Jacques on 1st June 2011
Some SysAdmins are confronted with domain member servers or domain member computers regularly loose there trust relationship with the domain controllers, forcing them to logon as local admin and re-join the machine to the domain. The explanation is easy. Every domain computer has an AD computer account with an automatically generated password. Computer account passwords [...]
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Posted by Jacques on 28th March 2008
Recently I had to install a 4D server on a Windows 2008 machine. This database server uses windows services for providing the database service to client computers. Unfortunately, the services output a database status window, including running transactions, logged-in users and backup reports to the user desktop. Since Windows services are running in session 0, [...]
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Posted by Jacques on 28th March 2008
Real men don’t click and will use BCDEdit.exe and/or the BCD WMI providers (find the classes here) The other will user System Properties/Advanced/Startup and Recovery or MSConfig.exe… I found EasyBCD, which is both didactic and powerfull, what might make me less real, but more effective…
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