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Password complexity checker

If you have enabled in your domain group policy the password complexity (see below), users will probably have some troubles to find the right password that meet these requirements. The complexity requirements are explained in the “Explain” tab of the

Get the regional settings with Powershell

Sometimes, it can be useful to get some informations through command line instead of using the GUI. It is the case for the regional settings. If you want to compare the regional settings between two user accounts, you can both

APT 407 error with proxy configuration

Description I got this error message when running the command apt-get update: Err https://packagecloud.io wheezy/main amd64 Packages The requested URL returned error: 407 Context I have added a new source list to update my Grafana: deb https://packagecloud.io/grafana/stable/debian/ wheezy main I’m

Local Security Authority cannot be contacted

Symptom While connecting on a Windows Server 2012 using RDP you might notice the following error: Remote Desktop Connection: An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted Cause This is probably due to the cached account

Check and update your GPOs for MS16-072

Description Due to the update MS16-072, you will have to check and update your GPO permissions. Why The following article describes very well why this update have changed our policy processing : After MS16-072 is installed, user group policies are

Update computer group membership without a reboot

Very useful tip found on the internet : how to update a computer group membership without a reboot ? Problem If, like me, you use Group Policies and apply them on computer account using security groups, you notice these GPOs

Find and remove lingering object in a forest

This script generate all the repadmin commands to find lingering object on all domain controllers in an Active Directory forest. You will find below two versions of the script : one using the Microsoft Powershell cmdlet get-adobject (import-module activedirectory), another