Windows DNS Server: Make dynamic entry static

Hi everyone

There is a small tip if you ever need to be sure the DNS entry of your server never change, or to be sure they never get scavenged.

If you open your DNS MMC, you will see static entry and dynamic entry that way;

The tip is to show the advanced feature; and after that double-click the record you want to make static, and untick the suppress option; as seen there in french;

 

After clicking Ok the record will now be tagged static, and will no longer change 🙂

 

Enjoy the small tip, thanks everyone

 

 

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ODBC drivers export / import

Hi everyone

In some case you might want to export all ODBC configurations from one server to another’s one.

There is a small handy tip with PowerShell to achieve that goal;

Export the DNS;

Get-OdbcDsn |Export-Clixml dsn.xml

On the other machine, we import it;

Import-Clixml dsn.xml |Add-OdbcDsn

 

Voila, the config is now copied between the computers.

QuickBook 2019 error on Windows Server 2012 R2..

Hi

If someday you have that setup;

• Customer with QuickBook on their computer
• The QuickBook server module

You might hit a small bug when you share your database.

An error code -6000,-83.

The file in the share are created, but not able to be open when the error happen ?

The bug was in the end really simple for me, the quickbook server module does not accept special characters in the folder name..

Renamed the folder with special charracters (é in my case) and voila, it worked..

Windows netstat tip

Hi

If you debug a lot your Windows computer and you need to issue the netstat -ano command, it’s often hard to see if a services is listening on the correct ports.

I find a small tip to quickly find that information.

In taskmgr.exe you right click the first coloum to display the PID, as such;

After that you can see a normal list from netstat -ano;

As you can see the list can be quite big, as such the tip is simply to parse the netstat -ano with a findstr command.

That way; netstat -ano | findstr “PID”

I tested it with the PID 5700, the steam client, for that result;

As you can see the list is really easier to read with that small tip ! 🙂

 

Thanks everyone

Windows Server – Log all Active Directory LDAP query

Hi

I wanted to share a small tip if you need to log all LDAP’s query sent to your ADDS’s server.

You can easilly find the correct registry to change there:

You need to set at 5 the key Field Engineering there: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Diagnostics

and you need to set to 1 those two keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Expensive Search Results Threshold

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Inefficient Search Results Threshold

For more detail you can find it some documentations there, Creating More Efficient Microsoft Active Directory-Enabled Applications

 

Thanks everyone

Windows Server 2016 RDP DPI settings

Hi

Today I will share a small tip for settings the DPI settings on a terminal’s session, especially useful if your customers use shared thin client.

On older RDP / TS server, Windows Server 2008 R2 you could apply this KB (You cannot change the DPI setting through a Remote Desktop session on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2)  that could allow the client to change the DPI’s settings inside the remote session.

In Windows Server 2016 the DPI settings is inherited from the parent device, thus the computer or the thin client.

As such if you want to control the DPI, but you don’t want to change the thin client configuration for everyone, then you can set a GPO with those settings;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\LogPixels
– If LogPixels does not exist then create a new DWORD value
– Type in Decimal Value
96 for Smaller 100%
120 for Medium 125%
144 for Larger 150%

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\IgnoreClientDesktopScaleFactor
– If IgnoreClientDesktopScaleFactor does not exist then create a new DWORD value
– Type in Decimal Value:
Turn on = 1
Turn off = 0

 

Thanks