Category: Windows
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V can Import Non-Exported VMs
About time.
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A PowerPoint 2010 pptx file from a network share opens read-only
Credit for this one goes to @xrobx99. He did all the work behind this post. I felt that it was such an obscure “bug”, that maybe my posting of the solution might help someone that is expereincing the same issue. The problem we were having was that when a user would open a large PowerPoint (.pptx)…
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Server ran out of space and not accepting connections after freeing up space
I was away on vacation, and a dev box ran out of space. Once I got back, I cleaned it up, rebooted and still could not connect to it. @xrobx99 noticed an IPSec message in the event logs: The IPSec driver has entered Block mode. IPSec will discard all inbound and outbound TCP/IP network traffic that is…
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PowerShell script to force download and install WindowsUpdates
I have been using the UpdateHF.vbs vbscript for years to patch all my servers. I wrote a simple HTA to wrap it, and it gets executed by psexec. I wanted to take that script, strip it down, and convert it to PowerShell. My intension was to run it through a PSSession but I get access…
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Dotted (period) NetBIOS Domain Name issues
I inherited a Dotted Netbios Domain Name. Technically it is allowed, but it is not recommended. With every new version of software, I cringe in fear that it will come back to bite us again. For example: Moving from Exchange 2003 to 2010 was a problem for a while, but it seemed to been resolved…
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Specifying Firefox setting (like proxy) on a machine across the enterprise.
We are interested in how to “push” proxy settings for Firefox across the environment. There are custom builds that claim to work with Group policy, but I wanted to manage the standard Firefox. A little digging shows that you need to create 2 files. First, a file named mozilla.cfg and place it in “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox”.…
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PowerShell script to change default prf imported when Outlook starts up for the first time
In this previous post, I talk about how we use Office Customization Tool (OCT) and “.prf” files to deploy Office 2010. Continuing with the idea that I want to know if a person is visiting from another office, I want to be able to switch from our default of “cached mode” to “online mode” for…
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Command to enable windows backup feature on Server 2008 R2
One liner: DISM /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:WindowsServerBackup /Quiet /NoRestart
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Xcopy vs Robocopy
This is news to me: “Xcopy fails with insufficient memory when the path plus filename is longer than 254 characters” Robocopy it is from now on!
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PowerShell script to email users if password expires soon, and send a summary to IT
I wanted to expand on my previous script: powershell-to-list-all-users-and-when-their-password-expires, so that it would send the user an email if their password was going to expire soon. Additionally I wanted to send a summary to our IT staff of accounts that were going to expire soon. Here is that script: