Show clients ip through citrix or terminal services

So how can you get the ip address of the client instead of the citrix server? There are times, actually many times that IT gets called when something is wrong with a persons computer. However navigating a user through finding their computer’s ip is a difficult process sometimes. Some companies have labels on the computer or monitor, but if you are one of those companies who doesn’t,...

Push VNC to client machines

Got hundreds of machines to deploy vnc onto, do it in one simple batch file? Most network admins use VNC for client machines. It’s easy to access, but not so secure, but inside a network it’s a okay option to use. However the problem is how to install VNC on machine on the network without touching the machine itself. I know you can do installation through AD and through different...

Domain not defaulting on windows logon

All of a sudden the server name would be the default to log into instead of the domain name. This was frustrating our users, who were used to logging in just with their username and password, they never worried about the log on to box. So I found this fix after some research. 1. Open regedit 2. Navigate to My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows...

Active Directory Roles

Here’s the command to view what role or roles each domain controller in your active directory domain has. netdom query fsmo I’m not going to do a write up on how to change these roles, since Microsoft has an excellent article that talks about it...

How to backup VMWare servers

Some of you may have computer labs, or have a network at home may use VMware Server (the free one, not ESX). So I’ve been trying to rack my brains into how to backup these machines at night. Now there are some scripts out there that minimize the downtime to one minute, but they complicated and sometimes don’t work, but if you want to try go to the vmware communities. There is also backup...