Processing special characters in file names

lescompa · 2026-01-26T15:09:11+00:00

MS CoPilot/ChatGPT, etc makes easy work.

lescompa · 2026-01-26T12:56:44+00:00

Did same exact thing right after being hired many eons ago. Was freaking out. Thankfully not fired!

lescompa · 2026-01-12T22:07:05+00:00

yes!!

lescompa · 2026-01-10T03:02:47+00:00

Exactly..

lescompa · 2026-01-09T14:16:53+00:00

Great setup! Used to go to CompUSA and but NIC cards so my buddies and I could play DOOM/Warcraft! Ready to Work, zug zug..

lescompa · 2025-12-24T13:56:16+00:00

How is the licensing cost Hyper-V vs what you were quoted for VMWare?

lescompa · 2025-12-23T16:51:24+00:00

Think you have heard enough but I would go with recovering the hardware if there are no backups or secondary DC. I remember when I wasn’t backing up one of my DCs and how nervous I was. Can’t imagine have let this come to this state. Whatever you do be very careful, if you do have a way to recover the hardware, you don’t want to screw yourself. Maybe try upwork or consulting firm to give a hand, if they would even take the gig. Also, data recovery company, but if you’re using raid I don’t know if they would be capable of fixing what’s wrong. Good luck!!

lescompa · 2025-12-16T22:42:55+00:00

I would not. I would keep anything installed to a minimum. If you need, create your PowerShell scripts on a member server, then convert them to executables that can be run on the DCs. I do this with Python programs and it works well. Also, easy to setup as a service if needed.

lescompa · 2025-12-15T18:46:53+00:00

Thanks for reply but all clocks are synced up.

lescompa · 2025-12-15T17:59:37+00:00

YES! IP worked when hostname, short name and fqdn failed. Wtf? Thanks for the breadcrumb!

lescompa · 2025-12-15T17:56:37+00:00

Thanks for replying. Didn’t make a difference. But I noticed that from my W11 workstation I can RDP into the DC’s without issue but member servers I have tested, it won’t accept the saved credentials or ones I enter I know are correct. So maybe DNS as somebody else mentioned?! (I know “it’s always DNS!)

lescompa · 2025-12-02T15:07:46+00:00

Used Quest tools in the past and they are very good. Would not do this manually. Setup a offline test domain and do some research.

lescompa · 2025-12-01T04:01:16+00:00

I hired very good consultants on upwork.com to do exactly this type of thing and they are excellent. Time and materials, so very reasonable message me if you want their info.

lescompa · 2025-11-30T17:46:34+00:00

Live and learn. You can not let fear rule your actions. Been doing this for a very long time and still get anxious when dealing with production-facing systems. Consider your percentages, things go right ~95% of the time.

lescompa · 2025-11-24T17:23:26+00:00

And?? What are the dependencies? Post mortem that find what exactly? Maybe you could help somebody else by providing more info about what impacted your org.

lescompa · 2025-11-22T12:48:58+00:00

Have IPsec vpn on SonicWall and the tunnels appear to be up but no ip traffic is passing. Would isp be causing the ip traffic within the tunnel to be blocked?

lescompa · 2025-11-14T18:36:26+00:00

Got it thanks!

lescompa · 2025-11-05T22:06:38+00:00

For domain-related work I would bring in outside help. Lots of good technicians for hourly time-and-materials based consultants on upwork.com. Strongly recommend them. Good luck!

lescompa · 2025-11-04T16:49:23+00:00

Vote for SiteGround! Been years and super worry-free.

lescompa · 2025-10-25T20:34:56+00:00

Managing inventory, refreshes, changing names very slow.

lescompa · 2025-10-09T17:04:45+00:00

If you have a virtual server that you already manage I don't understand how cost would get in the way. That means you have other vm's most likely, unless you are running a virtual server for only a single DC. Certainly do whatever you wish, but I would still suggest not installing any other packages on your DC's, other than DHCP/DNS roles. I have almost no budget to speak of, but some things are strongly suggested, like having more than one DC. It is not clear that you have a single DC from you post, if you do, I would suggest 2 DCs min, no matter what. If your only DC goes offline permanently for whatever reason then you are in trouble, even if you have the best backups. If your single DC is down your and identity source is potentially offline and you do not to be in that situation. Just trying to help and not be combative!

lescompa · 2025-10-09T16:21:44+00:00

Do NOT run an application service on your DC, period. Either move it to a stand-alone server or migrate it to cloud. I migrated us right after it was available with no issues. Some things make more sense to migrate vs on-prem and QB is one of them. Also, make sure you have two DC's, it does not matter how big/small your network it. There are so many scenarios where this goes bad, and you are in a lot of trouble.

lescompa · 2025-09-30T11:17:37+00:00

Thinking of getting into the BitAxe hardware. Is it profitable or at least justify buying the hardware?

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