Reset computer account password in a domain

I tried to logon to a computer  that wasn’t used for 18 months. I got message “The trust relationship between primary domain and this workstation failed” while logging on. A few PowerShell commands helped to fix the issue: http://blog.blksthl.com/2013/03/18/fix-the-trust-relationship-between-this-workstation-and-the-primary-domain-failed/ Solve the problem by resetting the Computer password in Active Directory and on the Local machine, for this we use a PowerShell […]

Delete Shadow Storage

http://blog.acarter.co.uk/2012/02/server-2008-vss-cannot-remove-snapshot/ I tried to use vssadmin by doing a ‘vssadmin list shadows‘ which sure enough showed me the copy, but when trying to delete it with the ‘vssadmin delete shadows /for=g:‘ , I was returned the error: Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context. Try removing them with the backup application which created them. The […]

SSH tunnel, SOCKS proxy, and PuTTY

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/93106-escaping-the-firewall-with-an-ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-and-putty – shows how to set up proxy w/ SSH tunnel http://shell.cjb.net/ – allows to set up an SSH account and I checked that I was able to use it for proxy setup Apparently, having SSH tunnel started slows down my internet connection 🙁 It is fun seeing my connection routed via a server in Mongolia, Japan, the Netherlands or France. […]

Free public DNS Servers

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/a/free-public-dns-servers.htm http://www.bestfreedns.net/ Free & Public DNS Servers (Updated October 2013) Provider Primary DNS Server Secondary DNS Server Level3 209.244.0.3 209.244.0.4 Google 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Securly 184.169.143.224 184.169.161.155 Comodo Secure DNS 8.26.56.26 8.20.247.20 OpenDNS Home 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 DNS Advantage 156.154.70.1 156.154.71.1 Norton ConnectSafe 198.153.192.40 198.153.194.40 GreenTeamDNS 81.218.119.11 209.88.198.133 SafeDNS 195.46.39.39 195.46.39.40 OpenNIC 74.207.247.4 64.0.55.201 Public-Root 199.5.157.131 208.71.35.137 SmartViper 208.76.50.50 208.76.51.51 Dyn 216.146.35.35 […]