Mysterious Account Lockouts

TLDR: Use PsExec and run “cmdkey /list” on affected systems. Occurs from a combination of saved credentials, DFS/domain accessing when installing software. This was a case of a very odd account lockout that lead me to a cause I’ve never seen from Windows. Normally account lockouts are fairly simple to resolve, usually it is a …

Managing Watchguard Firmware

Watchguard has two ways to upgrade the firmware. One is from the web UI and the other via Firebox System Manager. I prefer the System Manager, but when you download the firmware it runs an installer. This is leaving my programs list full of firmware update packages. Lots of clutter that Watchguard could easily fix …

Fixing stuck Exchange delegated access

Recently ran into an issue where an admin account had stuck delegated access to user accounts.  Even after removing the access the admin would still see the user account showing in Outlook.  Force updating the Offline Address Book and others didn’t fix it.  PowerShell showed that the admin account was still there with deny permissions …