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​Stop “installing” autonomous AI agents on your daily driver. You are doing it wrong. Our hero, Jolty (Zoë Roth AKA Disaster Girl) being told to ‘gonnae no dae that!’ a beautiful Scottish expression (please don’t do that) as a fire blazes in the background. This phrase perfectly sums up my feelings on MoltBot and the…

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  • Enable Remote Desktop using CMD

    To enable remote desktop.
    • Open registry editor by running regedit from Run.
    • Go to the node HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
    • Change the data of the value fDenyTSConnections to 0.
    We can enable remote desktop from windows command line by running the following command.
    reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server” /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
    To disable remote desktop we need to run the below command.
    reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server” /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
    Reboot or logoff is not required after running the above command. I have tested this on Windows XP and Windows 7 and it has worked fine. It would work fine on Windows Vista too.

  • Quickly find AD user password expiration date

    Quickly find AD user password expiration date

    Knowing when a password should expire is sometimes useful information.
    To find out all users password expiration date, open up powershell on the DC and run:

    Get-ADUser -filter {Enabled -eq $True -and PasswordNeverExpires -eq $False} –Properties “DisplayName”, “msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed” | Select-Object -Property “Displayname”,@{Name=”ExpiryDate”;Expression={[datetime]::FromFileTime($_.”msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed”)}}

    It will output for you a human readable list such as in the above post screenshot.
    I have tested and can confirm that the above script is working on Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 & 2019.

  • WPBakery Page Builder not working in chrome and shows console errors

    Just a quick one, hoping it will help someone,

    If you have a wordpress site with WPBakery Page Builder running on it, and find the frontend builder is not working, and if you also happen to use cloudflare – Rocket Loader™ is your issue.

    Go to cloudflare and under speed –> Optimization –> turn off Rocket Loader™

    Go back to WordPress and within a few mins, or the time your cache takes to update – your visual composer/WPBakery Page Builder will be working again.

  • Force Active Directory replication on a domain controller

    Force Active Directory replication on a domain controller

    To force Active Directory replication, on the server which needs forced to update, run using elevated CMD:

    repadmin /syncall /AeD

    A = All Partitions
    e = Cross Site (Enterprise)
    D = Show server name in output.

    This will initiate a pull replication.

    OR if you are already on on your main DC, and need to update any other servers in the AD, you can do a push replication:

    repadmin /syncall /APeD

    A = All Partitions
    e = Cross Site (Enterprise)
    D = Show server name in output.
    P = Push

    The technet article with further info can be found here:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc770963(v=ws.11)

    Perhaps, you like me are trying to move away from the old CMD comandlines, and migrate into PowerShell – if that is the case, bad news -currently there is no update alternative for repadmin in powershell – the Get-ADReplication commands are great for troubleshooting but offer no easy interface for updating AD.

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