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. […]