BookStack Dec. 11, 2016, 10:40 p.m.

BookStack is a simple, self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organising and storing information.

NirSoft Nov. 8, 2016, 1:14 p.m.

Huge selection of free windows utilities, password recovery tools, system utilities, desktop utilities etc.

NTP: I Need You to Go Ahead and Love It Nov. 4, 2016, 3:04 p.m.

In a nutshell, if you properly set up NTP on your network devices and systems you can have consistently set clocks across your enterprise.

Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer Nov. 4, 2016, 2:22 p.m.

The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using LDAP, and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange Server topology. The diagramms may include domains, sites, servers, organizational units, DFS-R, administrative groups, routing groups and connectors and can be changed manually in Visio if needed.

Windows Server 2012 R2 DHCP Expired Leases Not Getting Scavenged Oct. 18, 2016, 4:52 p.m.

Windows Server 2012 R2 DHCP HA cluster configured for Failover. The symptoms were that some of the scopes were full, however exporting leases that were visible in the GUI showed that plenty of IP addresses should have been available.

IIS Crypto Oct. 11, 2016, 4:12 p.m.

IIS Crypto is a free tool that gives administrators the ability to enable or disable protocols, ciphers, hashes and key exchange algorithms on Windows Server 2008, 2012 and 2016. It also lets you reorder SSL/TLS cipher suites offered by IIS, implement best practices with a single click, create custom templates and test your website.

Configuring Azure Active Directory Connect with an Exchange Resource Forest Topology – Adrian Moore Oct. 4, 2016, 5:03 p.m.

This post is about using AAD Connect to synchronise your On-Premises Active Directory accounts to Azure AD when you have a resource forest topology, with Exchange in one forest (the resource) and identity (the user account) in another forest.

Default checks when implementing Hybrid Identity, Part 3: Linked Mailboxes Oct. 4, 2016, 5:01 p.m.

The first and most straightforward method is changing the scope of Azure AD Sync to include the disabled accounts that reside in the Exchange resource forest. You won’t necessarily need to exclude the accounts with linked mailboxes that won’t synchronize, because Azure AD Sync considers these out of scope and therefor won’t cause duplicates in the Connector Space towards Azure Active Directory.

Install Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Outlook using a command prompt Sept. 30, 2016, 1:47 p.m.

Mostly accurate instructions for deploying CRM 2013 Outlook Addin.

How to set Proxy settings for SYSTEM account: BITSAdmin tool Sept. 29, 2016, 2:20 p.m.

The BITSAdmin tool allows you to change the proxy settings for LOCALSYSTEM, NETWORKSERVICE and LOCALSERVICE.

Deploying Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 with System Center Configuration Manager Sept. 21, 2016, 2:21 p.m.

How to build a Configuration Manager Application for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1.

End to End Deployment with Microsoft Azure Sept. 20, 2016, 2:58 p.m.

If you're a sysadmin who needs to deploy resources in Microsoft's Azure platform your choices have been limited to either the web portal or complex scripts. Today I want to highlight a set of new technologies that when combined together provide a way to move away from manual processes and complex scripts and instead produce a declarative, reusable, and easy to manage and maintain solution for deployment to Azure.

Azure AD Connect Health Agent installation Sept. 19, 2016, 3:01 p.m.

The agent uses System.Net to make web requests instead of Microsoft Windows HTTP Services. The configured Http Proxy address will be used to pass-through encrypted Https messages. Authenticated proxies (using HTTPBasic) are not supported.

Installing And Configuring Azure AD Connect Health Agent for ADDS / ADFS Sept. 16, 2016, 12:28 p.m.

Covers the many various errors and failures that are encountered installing the Azure AD Connect Health Agent.

Cleanup Active Directory with PowerShell Sept. 2, 2016, 9:02 a.m.

PowerShell scripts to report on & manage inactive Active Directory objects, including users, computers, groups and OUs.

Silently deploy SSRS Printing Components for SQL 2008 R2 (RSPrintClient.dll) Aug. 31, 2016, 4:55 p.m.

In secure environments you sometimes need to install ActiveX components. I wanted to create a silent installation of the Printing components of the SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 in a lock downed environment. The components are needed to present the print dialog box in the Reporting Services website.

Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide Aug. 29, 2016, 8:35 p.m.

By the end of the article you will have a great looking prompt, a nice Git setup using ssh keys and even be able to squash commits on Windows.

Enterprise Management of ActiveX Controls using ActiveX Installer Service Aug. 26, 2016, 3:59 p.m.

The ActiveX Installer Service can install ActiveX controls in the background for non-administrative users.

How to install the UniFi Controller on Ubuntu Aug. 16, 2016, 11:27 a.m.

How to use Group Policy Preferences to Secure Local Administrator Groups Aug. 2, 2016, 11:25 a.m.

How do you give a users full admin access to a computer but stop them from adding more people to the local admin group on a computer? Use Group Policy Preference of course.