Solving a potential DNS Scavenging Mess!
I used to work for a company that had a very large AD-Integrated DNS zone with more than 100,000 A records in it. We, the Engineering team, decided to enable DNS Scavenging in the zone to delete the stale records. In other words, records that for one reason or another, would not update themselves and the Timestamp was already older than what we wanted. We had...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Change Description to Multiple AD Accounts via Powershell Script
Posted by Mr. Hiraldo on 12:55 PM
Recently, I was in the need to change the description on multiple Active Directory accounts that I had exported from an OU to CSV. They were over 500 so doing it one by one would have been a time consuming task. That's when I decided to do a simple by working script to accomplish this task.
I'm using Powershell but you can other languages such as VBS. I prefer Powershell...
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Deleting Domino Policies from Local Lotus Notes Client
Posted by Mr. Hiraldo on 11:02 AM
Some enterprises lock down Lotus Notes settings via Domino Policies and occasionally, while troubleshooting, you may find out that certain settings are grayed out. If you don't have Domino Administrator rights to edit the policies, it may become problematic and you may be forced to remove the policies from the local machine.
How to remove Domino Policies from a Lotus...
Notes error: Special database object cannot be located when archiving locally
Posted by Mr. Hiraldo on 9:50 AM
Years ago, one of my users got the error: "Notes error: Special database object cannot be located" when trying to archive locally from her Lotus Notes. After I tried refreshing design template, views, emptying the trash with no success.
According to my old personal troubleshooting archive, I had read an article in the IBM forum, (the link is broken now) that said:
"In...
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
iTunes Store doesn't load on Windows XP or Windows 7
Posted by Mr. Hiraldo on 7:22 PM
Some time ago, one of the users I support had an issue with the iTunes store. It wouldn't load at all and she would get a white screen and a spinning wheel trying to load the store. After having uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes with no luck, the IT muse enlightened me and I thought of resetting the Winsocks on Windows and Bingo! I got the issue resolved.
How to do...
Saturday, December 22, 2012
iTunes does not open on Windows 7
Posted by Mr. Hiraldo on 2:19 PM
Recently, I was helping a user whose computer wouldn't launch iTunes. This user had Windows 7 64 bits and I had already uninstalled iTunes and reinstalled the newest version of iTunes from the Apple site and yet the issue persisted. I had noticed that iTunesHelper.exe was running and that the process itunes.exe would also quickly launch and close itself so that told...
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Could not load Citrix online plug-In (Google Chrome for Mac)
Posted by Mr. Hiraldo on 4:01 PM
This error normally occurs launching Citrix applications from Google Chrome for Mac after reinstalling the new Citrix Receiver.
The fix is very simple!
Just navigate to the OS Volume (in the image below is Macintosh HD) then /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/
Delete the plugin "CitrixICAClientPlugin.plugin".
Relaunch the app from Chrome and you should be fine!
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