I am always remoting into servers and using complex passwords. This combination often causes problems because the timing of the Shift key is not always correct and I often find myself logged into a server but unable to use remote desktop to hop to another server because my account has been locked out. One way […]
Removing a Broken Domain Controller
In the process of upgrading to Windows 2008R2 domains, I normally shutdown the older 2003 servers for a week, to validate that nothing important remains on them, before demoting them from domain controllers to member servers. This process works great as long as one remembers to turn these shutdown servers back on and demote them […]