Here are some PowerShell examples that we can use to count the numbers of user accounts in Active Directory. Total number of user accounts in AD PS> (Get-ADUser -filter *).count Total number of user accounts in an OU PS> (Get-ADUser -filter * -searchbase “OU=Vancouver, OU=MyCompany, DC=Domain, DC=Local”).count Replace the SearchBase with your own OU path. Total number of enabled/disabled accounts in […]
After I manually imported a few hotfixes and optional updates from Microsoft Update Catalog, I noticed that it takes quite times to download from Microsoft website. Is there any way to check the download status so you know when to expect they will be available to be deployed? The bad news is that there is no way to check download status […]
Via Windows Server Blog, This updated guide provides a comprehensive collection of technical articles with practical guidance for IT professionals and server administrators responsible for monitoring and tuning Windows Server 2016 across the most common server workloads and scenarios. With this guidance, administrators can tune server settings in Windows Server 2016 and achieve incremental performance or energy efficiency gains, especially […]
Some of the security updates released on June 13 have been causing quite a bit issues for Outlook, like this and this, for over a week. Finally, Microsoft released the fixes today to end this. But since they are the non-security update that only includes improvements, they were released as optional updates that may not be picked up by WSUS. […]
There are a few ways available to find out what version and edition of SQL Server you are running. SQL Server Management Studio Connect to the server you want to find out, right-click the server instance name and choose Properties. The product line tells what edition of SQL Server this is. It runs SQL Express version in this case. The […]
The Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 IT Pro documentation is now moved from TechNet to docs.microsoft.com. Following are some URLs so that you can replace your old bookmarks and access the new sites. Windows Server 2016 documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/windows-server-2016 Windows Server 2016 Networking documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/networking/networking Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/windows-10/ /via Technet/
I was trying to install .Net 3.5 on a Windows Server 2012 machine through “Add or Remove Features” wizard, like I did many times before. But this time, it’s failed with an error message about “the source could not be found.” Turns out, what’s caused this problem is that the server was configured to use WSUS instead of Microsoft Windows […]
If you have a workstation that failed to Windows Update with the error 0x80244022 from a WSUS, the fix is pretty simple and straightforward. The reason why the error occurs is that the Application Pool that runs the WSUS service stopped. Go to the WSUS server and open IIS Manager. Click Application Pools, select WsusPool, and click Start to restart […]