utility and method still works in 2012R2
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinholman/2010/01/05/understanding-and-modifying-data-warehouse-retention-and-grooming/
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Friday, December 16, 2016
IIS security
If you have an account like contoso\sharepoint-farm in your IIS be aware that you can run locally appcmd command and obtain the password in clear text. Message: never use powerfull accounts in IIS. There are some people that use Domain Admin accounts there.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Ncat: Could not resolve hostname "ûs": No such host is known. . QUITTING.
If you have this message running ncat, probably you copy-pasted a command line from internet and some symbols are Unicode, retype command by hand. check symbol "-"
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Generic failure querying the localized name for channel: DFS Replication
if you have issues refreshing Server Manager and a follwing error appears
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-ServerManager-MgmtProvider/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-ServerManager-ManagementProvider
Date: 11/15/2016 3:00:24 PM
Event ID: 46
Task Category: Get server inventory task
Level: Warning
Keywords:
User:
Computer:
Description:
Generic failure querying the localized name for channel: DFS Replication [hResult = Function failed during execution., hLastResult = The system cannot find the file specified.].
The solution is to run powershell
Remove-EventLog -LogName "DFS Replication"
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Windows Updates setting change log
When you change Windows updates to install automatically the follwing is logged in WindowsUpdate.log
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU ########### AU: Setting new AU options ###########
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU Setting AU Approval Type to 4
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU Setting Install Schedule Day to 0
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU Setting Install Schedule Time to 3
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU # Policy changed, AU refresh required = No
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU # Approval type: Scheduled (User preference)
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU # Scheduled install day/time: Every day at 3:00
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU # Auto-install minor updates: Yes (User preference)
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU # Will display featured software notifications (User preference)
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU AU settings changed through User Preference.
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU Setting AU scheduled install time to 2016-11-11 02:00:00
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2016-11-10 10:49:50:216 864 18a4 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2016-11-10 10:49:50:325 864 18a4 AU Getting featured update notifications. fIncludeDismissed = true
2016-11-10 10:49:50:325 864 18a4 AU No featured updates available.
if you change it to Check for Updates and let me choose when to install:
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU ########### AU: Setting new AU options ###########
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU Setting AU Approval Type to 2
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU # Policy changed, AU refresh required = No
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU # Approval type: Pre-download notify (User preference)
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU # Will display featured software notifications (User preference)
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU AU settings changed through User Preference.
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2016-11-10 10:50:11:245 864 18a4 AU Successfully wrote event for AU health state:0
2016-11-10 10:50:11:354 864 18a4 AU Getting featured update notifications. fIncludeDismissed = true
2016-11-10 10:50:11:354 864 18a4 AU No featured updates available.
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