E-Tech Systems

09/14/2020

Found a useful article today which helped me out...just passing along.

When you are working with Visual Machines (VMs) and fixed hard disks it can happen that you run out of space. In such cases it comes in handy that you can simply extend the existing virtual hard di…

01/31/2018

Command to verify NTP server list within Windows
w32tm /query /peers

01/26/2018

GPO - Policy setting on how to always show icons within taskbar.

User Configuration -> Admin Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar -> Turn off notification area cleanup

01/26/2018

https://www.itsupportguides.com/knowledge-base/windows-7/windows-7-how-to-install-the-active-directory-users-and-computers-tools/

07/20/2017

https://richardstk.com/2013/11/29/create-a-dedicated-account-to-join-computers-to-a-domain/

04/06/2017

Authorize senders with SPF
Multiple SPF records

If you need to authorize more than one mail server for your domain, we recommend that you update your existing SPF record instead of creating multiple records.

Example
v=spf1 ip4:83.206.106.17 ~all
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

This text will cause the SPF check to fail because there are multiple records. Instead, add the mail server's IP address before the ~all argument using the format ip4:address or ip6:address to add the server to your existing SPF record:

v=spf1 ip4:83.206.106.17 include:_spf.google.com ~all

03/01/2017

I was having issues uninstalling a pre install of Windows Office and found this handy tool...

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Uninstall-Office-2016-Office-2013-or-Office-365-from-a-PC-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8

The following steps describe how to uninstall Office 2016 or 2013 products on a PC (laptop, desktop, or 2-in-1). To uninstall Office 2011 or 2016 for Mac, see the section Uninstall Office on a Mac or older versions of Office.

12/08/2016

I needed this help this week.
https://www.lifewire.com/how-do-i-auto-login-to-windows-2626066

Configuring Windows to auto login is easy. If security isn't a concern, you can set up Windows to automatically logon to your account in just a few steps.

10/30/2016

https://www.newnettechnologies.com/cis-benchmark.html -server

10/28/2016

https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/benchmarks/

The Center for Internet Security is a non-profit enterprise that helps organizations reduce the risk of business and e-commerce disruptions resulting from inadequate technical security controls. CIS provides enterprises with consensus best practice standards for security configurations, as well as r...

10/27/2016

http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html?

These tools are meant to help you deploy SPF records for your domain. They use an actual RFC 7208 compliant library (pyspf) for tests and will dynamically test for processing limit errors (no other testers I'm aware of do this). This site uses a caching DNS resolver, so for tests that use live DNS,…

10/26/2016

https://www.poweradmin.com/blog/top-20-windows-tools-every-sysadmin-should-know/