Category Archives: Admin

Type rsop.msc into the run box and then hit enter see which Group Policy settings have been applied to your machine or user account gpresult /Scope Computer /v

You can free up disk space on your servers by disabling hibernate. Windows 2008 will create a hiberfil.sys equal to the amount of RAM. To disable hibernation, and reclaim that space, run this command: powercfg -h off

To change a user’s password at the command prompt, log on as an administrator and type:net user user_name * /domain When you are prompted to type a password for the user, type the new password, not the existing password. After you type the new password, the system prompts you to… Continue reading →

You can see all the open files on a system by running this command:openfiles /query

To quickly generate a text summary of your system, run this command: systeminfo | more

This is the start of my 101 level tech tips. I have found that there are some tasks that sysAdmins skip over or never use, they are usually basic skills that for some reason at the time went in one ear and back out the other. So this is my… Continue reading →