In order to configure and use server query do the following. Go to Active Directory Users and Computers: Right click the Saved Queries folder and select New, Query. Enter an appropriate Name and Description. Make sure the query root is set to the domain level you want the query to pertain to. Select the Include subcontainers check box if you want the query to search all subcontainers. Click Define Query. In the Find dialog box, click the Find drop-down arrow and select Custom Search. On the Advanced tab, enter your LDAP query string into the Enter LDAP query box. Click OK twice. Active Directory Saved Queries Templates Find Groups that contains the word admin (objectcategory=group)(samaccountname=*admin*) Find users who have admin in description field (objectcategory=person)(description=*admin*) Find all Universal Groups (groupType:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=8) Empty Groups with No Members (objectCategory=group)(!member=*) Finds all groups defined as a Global Group, a Domain Local Group, or a Universal […]

SSH over to your ESX server. You will need sudo or root access to complete the following. Edit the following with your favorite editor. vi /etc/syslog.conf Add the following line to the bottom of the file. This will forward all the logs to the syslog server — a good thing. #forward to Syslog Server *.* @syslog.domain Restart the syslog service service syslog restart Open the local firewall to allow UDP over port 514 esxcfg-firewall -o 514,udp,out,syslog Reload the firewall configuration esxcfg-firewall -l