Month: February 2017

  • Dell SUU & OM

    DELL SUU (if suulauncher.exe doesn’t work) Launch Dell SUU in server core using command-line.  G:\IT\Dell Software Update Utility 6.3.0\suu -g Proceed as usual DELL OM Unzip open manage into C:\OpenManage using  G:\IT\Dell OpenManage\OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WIN-6.3.0-2075_A00.20.exe Run the prereq checker in silent mode using command-line C:\OpenManage\windows\PreReqChecker>RunPreReqChecks.exe /s Ensure that prereq returns to prompt without errors. change to C:\OpenManage\windows\SystemsManagement and […]

  • Winbind

    Integrating AD logins to RHEL6 Use yum to install samba-winbind Use authconfig to configure winbind, best not to update the pam files directly.  (First, authconfig –savebackup [name]) [root@example]# authconfig –enablewinbind –enablewinbindauth –smbsecurity=ads –smbrealm=your.domain.local –smbservers=dc.your.domain.local –smbworkgroup=WORKGROUP –smbidmapuid=10000-20000 –smbidmapgid=10000-20000 — winbindtemplatehomedir=/home/%D/%U –winbindtemplateshell=/bin/bash –enablewinbindusedefaultdomain –winbindtemplatepri marygroup=%U –enablemkhomedir –updateall Add the server to the domain [root@example]# net ads join […]

  • WEvtUtil

    Example of dumping a user’s logins from an RD gateway and domain controller. wevtutil qe /r:RDGATEWAY Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Gateway/Operational /e:root /f:RenderedXML /q:”*[UserData[EventInfo[Username=’DOMAIN\username’]]]” >wevtutil.username.xml wevtutil qe /r:DCSERVER System /f:RenderedXML /q:”*[System[(EventID=5723) and TimeCreated[timediff(@SystemTime)<=8640000]]]” > 5723.xml wevtutil qe /r:DCSERVER Security /f:RenderedXML /q:”*[System[(EventID=4740) and TimeCreated[timediff(@SystemTime)<=8640000]]]” > 4740.xml

  • Diskpart

    Example to create a RAID10 striped volume with RAIDR SSD PCIe cards: Hit CTRL+M on boot up to reconfigure RAIDR from RAID0 to RAID1 Do again for second RAIDR card ( you now have two RAID1 RAIDR SSD PCIe cards) from diskpart: select drive # (the first SSD drive) clean (optional) convert dynamic select drive […]

  • KMS Activation

    FINDING THE DOMAIN KMS SERVERS nslookup -q=SRV _VLMCS._TCP.your.domain.local   KMS OS Client Setup Keys By default, the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems use KMS for activation. In volume installations, the setup key is installed by default, which makes the system a KMS client. If you are converting a computer from a KMS host, MAK, […]