Setup OS-X to quicklook vbs files
I have some .vbs files I wrote, and I thought that I should be able to quicklook them just like any other text file. Finding out exactly how wasn’t terribly easy.
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Windows Time Troubleshooting
Windows time has two components. First is the Domain Controller. The Domain Controller should be sync’ed to the master NTP server in the environment. Microsoft’s excellent document on the steps necessary can be found HERE.
The Windows clients will need to be configured to point to the Domain Controllers (DC’s.) If you’ve never installed any non-Microsoft utilities, you should be OK by just making sure Windows Time is running. However, if it is not running, or something has broken time, these are steps that will help you fix your problems.
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WSUS Clients not checking in
On our ESX server, we deployed a bunch of Windows 2003 clients from a template, using the “Guest Customization” feature. When you do this, you get a new SID, but you don’t get a new SUSClientId. Since all the clients have the same SUSClientId, only one of them can talk to the WSUS server at a time. Looking around the internet, I found many different suggestions on how to fix the issue. I should say I found many suggestions for which reg key to delete. In the end, I only had to delete one. It worked for all ~37 of my machines, but it took two passes. Your mileage may vary.
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gpresult – Access Denied
While trying to make sure a GPO got applied on a Windows 2003 Server, I tried to run gpresult. I got “Access Denied.”
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Reset Performance Monitors in Windows
This is specific to Windows 2003, but may work in other flavors
c:\windows\system32\lodctr /r