Apple iOS: How to factory reset a locked iPad or iPhone

If you forget your device passcode or PIN, there is no way to get into it again. You have to do a factory reset of the device. For that, you need iTunes and a USB cable to connect your device to your PC. Find below the steps to recover your handheld: Important: These steps will wipe (delete) all your data and settings from your device. Remove all cables from your device. Switch your device off by holding the Standby button and swiping to the right. Hold the home button and connect Read more [...]

Windows Active Directory: How to move the FSMO Roles via the GUI

All 5 FSMO roles of Active Directory can be moved via script, but lets see how it works via GUI (MMC): RID Master, Infrastructure Master, and PDC Emulator Login to the target DC via RDP Open "AD Users and Computers" Right-click the Domain and choose "Operations Masters..." Choose the appropriate tab Click "Change..." Click "Yes" to confirm Schema Master Make sure you are member of the "Schema Admins" group. Being in the "Enterprise Admins" group is not enough! Login Read more [...]

Windows Active Directory: Who holds the FSMO Roles?

The easiest way to find out which Active Directory Domain Controller holds the FSMO roles is the following: Open a CMD box Type netdom query fsmo The output is something like C:\Windows\system32>netdom query fsmo Schema master               DC1.ad-domain.local Domain naming master      DC1.ad-domain.local PDC                         DC1.ad-domain.local RID pool manager            DC1.ad-domain.local Infrastructure master       Read more [...]

Windows: How to elevate the Command Prompt to System Rights

Have you ever tried to configure something on a windows system as Administrator and still got a permission denied? While the Administrator is powerful, he still can't do everything. There is an account that is even more powerful, it is called SYSTEM. So how could you run something as SYSTEM? Here is how: Start a command prompt as Administrator From Sysinternals, download psexec.exe and put it on the C: drive In the command prompt, navigate to the directory with psexec.exe Run "psexec.exe Read more [...]

HP ILO: Configure it via ESX

When you can't access HP ILO via Web Console anymore (e.g. because you have configured the IP address wrongly or enabled DHCP by accident), there is a possibility to configure the ILO IP settings via ESX. Login to the ESX vSphere Client Make sure that SSH is running on ESX (ESX host > Configuration > Security Profile > Services > Properties, Start SSH if it is not started) Download Putty on the Windows machine where the vSphere Client runs. Start Putty.exe and use the IP address Read more [...]

BES 5.0.4: How to add an administrative user

On BES 5.0.4, it is a bit tricky to add an administrative user. Normal Blackberry users are added under User > Create user, but admin users have to be added from a different menu. First, login with BESAdmin. Then, you have to go to Administrator user > Create an administrator user Then, fill in the fields, which are not self-explanatory: Display name: Use the display name from Active Directory User name: Use the AD login name Domain: Use the AD domain name Administrator Read more [...]

Windows Server 2003: How to restart the Terminal Services service

How do you restart the terminal services service? In MMC (services.msc), it is greyed out. It would be handy to be able to do it if you don’t want to restart the whole server. The official word from Microsoft is: “The Terminal Services service is an integrated part of the core OS in Windows, that’s why it can’t be stopped or restarted as most other services (it is grayed out).” The following procedure does the trick: Open a command prompt Type in: tasklist /svc /fi “imagename Read more [...]

Windows: Run commands to start Control Panel items

Sometimes it is faster to access Control Panel items via command line than clicking and searching in the UI. To use a command, just press <Windows-Key>-R, which will open the Run window. Then just type the command and press <Enter>. For the .cpl files, the "control" command can even be left out, so that is even less to type. Control Panel Applet Command OS Accessibility Options control access.cpl XP Action Center control /name Microsoft.ActionCenter 8, 7 control Read more [...]

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