Windows DNS not updating

Recently came across an issue where DNS was not updating on a windows client in a domain. The event logs only logged a standard error After going around Google and trying things with no solutions. I finally decided to investigate things with a WireShark and thats when I found my issue. Typically DNS is using …

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 …

Dynamics CRM notes change ownership unexpectedly

I stumbled across a weird issue with Dynamics CRM 2011. I thought it was due to Rollup 12 as it only recently started happening, but it appears to be default behavior (whether I noticed it before or not). Basically the steps to reproduce this are very simple. User A Create a case with some basics …

Using Chrome on CRM 2011 Rollup 12 will repeatedly show login prompt

While testing out CRM 2011 Rollup 12, I noticed that I could not get it to log me in for Chrome. After checking my security log and resetting Chrome back to defaults, it still didn’t shed any light onto why this was happening. After much searching, I happen to find the article explaining this. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2709891/en-us?sd=rss&spid=15707 …