GPO – Change Event Viewer Log size and retention period
The default of the event viewer log size is 512kb. As well to make this dangerous the logs will overwrite events older then 7 days only. So what happens when you logs fill up in two days from a critical error? You start loosing critical information to help trouble shoot the problem. With today’s availability of disk here is a better way to set these settings using a GPO to automate the process on all of your servers/desktops…
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Force a user GPO on a computer OU in Microsoft Active Directory
I needed to apply a blank screen saver to all of our servers. Of course I wanted this to be done based on Server and not the logged in user/administrator. The location in the GPO for setting a screen saver is located in… (Click below to read the rest)
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Modify NTFS permissions without replacing ACLs with Xcalcs.exe
Xcacls is used to modify NTFS permissions without replacing existing ACLs. This allows you to hit individual files, folders, or entire directories. The tool is very easy and can do all this with a single line of code.
While I was at a clients I came across some user folders that never had the proper NTFS rights assigned at setup. Subsequently they all had the default local users group assigned to them with read and execute. This effectively gave all users access to all folder. To make this even harder to resolve, someone had also removed the inheritance check mark and copied all the permissions. This now means that the only way to remove the ACL from the GUI is by removing it individually on each folder and file. Not a good solution considering there are over 4000 users. So time to use a script.
First you will need to download Xcacls.
Search Google for Xcacls, or for KB825751, or click on the link below
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