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Kill a Windows service quick tip
Just a quick tip from the trenches that I have used numerous times over the years to deal with problematic Windows services. Â Let’s take a look at the “kill a Windows service quick tip”. Â You may have a service that…
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Set Audit Policy Powershell
Scripting mundane setup tasks is essential in today’s world of server/workstation provisioning in the fast paced Virtualization environments we as system administrators manage. Â If you are like me, you may have googled “set audit policy powershell” to find a quick…
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Intel Proset no vlans or teaming in Windows 10
In helping out with a Windows 10 upgrade project on a precision workstation, I stumbled onto a show stopper issue with the Intel Proset drivers. Â After the upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1, it was discovered the Proset drivers…
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Windows 10 Networking Powershell commandlets
With Windows 10 we have all the goodness of powershell baked into the operating system and with that, there are several really great powershell commandlets that can be used to take control of the networking components of your Windows 10…
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Add SMTP Windows Server 2016
Most may not realize that there is actually a free SMTP server builtin to Windows Server all the way back to Windows 2003 and is IIS 6 technology (I know, try to suppress your nausea).  The SMTP server is a feature that…
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Windows Server 2016 Containers Basic Setup
If you would like to lab and play around with containers, there is a really great setup script and a few easy steps you can follow to get a copy of Windows Server 2016 TP 4 setup with containers working.…
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Create a Windows SXS install share
If you find yourself spinning up many Windows Server VMs like I do, you may not want to sit and wait for your Windows Server 2012 R2 VM to download the .NET package that you are trying to install with…
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Can’t get rid of cached credentials Internet Explorer
The other day I had a colleague call me with a pesky credential issue using Internet Explorer. Â He was connecting to an internal only web server that uses Windows authentication to validate logins to a secure IIS site running in…
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Delete the Recovery partition Windows 10
Recently, in helping a buddy out with his Mac running Parallels and Windows 10 inside there – he was having an issue where he had added space to his OS drive. Â He had added raw space to the VM itself,…
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Windows 10 Edge can’t be opened using the built-in administrator account
With the release of Windows 10 today, many are spinning up VMs and loading the new workstation on test boxes to take a look at the final build version. Â If you are like me, one of the first things I…
