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Fixing Maximum connections reached by Clearing Connected Sessions on an APC UPS

I was trying to log into an APC UPS with the correct login but still received an error, The maximum number of web connections has been reached or simply Maximum connections reached. Knowing I had the right login credentials, and that no one else was logged into, I was a little perplexed. There is a … Continue reading

Get the last Reboot or Shutdown reason and user from the Windows Event Log

Start by going into Event Viewer (Windows+R or the Start Menu and type eventvwr.msc). Navigate to the System Log under Windows, we then want to use Filter Current Log to allow us to only show Events with certain attributes (such as Source or IDs). In our case, we want to filter on Event Source: USER32. … Continue reading

Copying files from one server to another as a different user (two separate domains) using PowerShell

I’ve been working on needed to copy a number of files from one client site to another, my issue is that they have separate Active Directory domains and there is no trust between them. Using PowerShell, we can save a user credential and then use that to map a network drive with them and perform … Continue reading

Using PowerShell to Manage Windows Server DNS entries

Firstly, Happy new year. Anyway, I was recently tasked with creating a large number of DNS entries on our internal DNS servers. To accomplish this I decided to use PowerShell to perform an import of a CSV file that I had been given that already had my DNS entries. There was a header row with … Continue reading