If you have been doing systems administration for any length of time, you have probably dealt with the disgruntled employee “termination” situation. Typically, you, your boss, or the Help Desk gets a call from HR (probably outside of normal account termination/offboarding processes), requesting all access for a specific account to be disabled immediately. Sometimes, the [...]

While adding a new Data Source to a Sharepoint Site for SQL Reporting Services, I kept getting the following error: An unexpected error occurred while connecting to the report server. Verify that the report server is available and configured for SharePoint integrated mode. Ummm…. OK. It is configured for SharePoint integrated mode.  Quick Google search [...]

I ran into a problem today that had me stumped for a little bit and I just couldn’t shake the thought I had run into the problem before. It took a few minutes to clear the cobwebs out of my aging memory and finally the solution hit me like a brick. One of our users [...]

I was starting to get tired of the Windows 7 logon background, which in my opinion, looks like a default Twitter theme. So I did some research and found that Microsoft has made it especially easy to change this background. You don’t even need to reboot. To do this, simply follow these Steps: Open Start [...]

I recently ran into a situation in which I needed and SSL certificate for a DC which did not have access to a Certificate Authority. In order to configure secure LDAP to authenticate against a DC, the domain controller must have a Domain Controller Authentication certificate configured for server authentication. Normally, you would simply set [...]