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RDSH 2012 R2: Shadow Users without Connection Broker admin rights
It seems as though the only way to use the PowerShell Get-RDUserSession cmdlet against the Connection Broker is if the user running the command is a member of the Administrators group on the...
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GP Pref Drive Maps not working at logon
Had an annoying issue on Windows 8.1 clients where I’d configured several of the GPPref Drive Maps preferences but these were not working when users logged on. They would however work if I ran a...
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PowerShell script to get temperature from NetBotz
Wrote this to extract the temperature reading from a few NetBotz devices that I have in my datacentres. Note that the second time I call the function, it is getting the temperature from a second...
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How to shrink a Windows harddisk and migrate to SSD
I have been switching a lot of people from HDD (hard disk drives: spinning, magnetic disks) to SSD (solid state disk: silicon/flash-based) recently. It can breathe new life into an old PC/laptop, the...
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VMM: The version of virtualization software or the VMM agent is unsupported
I have been adding a Dell VRTX as a Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster to my System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 system. I have two nodes M620 nodes and some shared storage in the VRTX chassis. I...
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Why I’m not deploying Windows desktops using Remote Desktop Services
…even though some of the improvements in the Remote Desktop technology are excellent. Background I’ve been running hundreds of thin client Windows desktops from Citrix for well over ten years, starting...
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PowerShell LDAP response time monitor
I recently had some issues with a system not getting very response times to LDAP queries sent to various Active Directory domain controllers. These were resolved via a combination of Windows Server...
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Free Active Directory and Exchange 2013 knowledge from Veeam
Just found the following free stuff from Veeam, which both sound good: Active Directory Expert Series [From Physical to Virtual] “Get the jumpstart on Active Directory: how to set it up, virtualize and...
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Windows Update and WSUS error 80244019
Some colleagues had recently performed a migration from an old Windows Server 2003 WSUS server to a new Server 2012 R2 one. I had just upgraded a new tablet from Windows 8.1 Professional to Enterprise,...
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Record audio output directly on Windows 7 with Audacity
There are a lot of uses for being able to directly record the sound that your PC is making, and it’s relatively easy to do. This method does not require you to have to use any cables, it just uses the...
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Asus Zenfone 5 A500KL Review
I’ve been looking for a sensible spec, sensible price Android phone for quite some time. There are a lot about now, and the ZenFone 5 caught my eye a while ago. As a company, I’ve used Asus...
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EMET 5.1 crashes IE11 – SEHOP
I’ve been running EMET on all my PCs for several years now. I realised that several were still running the version 3.5 tech preview so thought I’d better upgrade to the latest and greatest, EMET 5.1....
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Find the DLL used by an Internet Explorer Add-on
Found this by accident, but it’s surprisingly easy. I’m using the latest IE, version 11. Click the IE settings cog, and then click Manage add-ons from the menu. In the Manage Add-ons dialogue box,...
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Windows 10 free upgrade – not for Enterprise or RT editions
I’ve been looking for details on the announced free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10 that was announced a little while ago. I can’t start making plans to upgrade people without knowing if...
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SBS 2008: Emails not received or bouncing
Small Business Server 2008 contains (amongst other things) Exchange 2007. This means that email handling is done on-premises rather than by an SMTP/IMAP/POP3/Exchange server hosted out on the internet...
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PowerShell: Find MTU
I had some issues caused by MTU recently, and decided to write a script to test for the Maximum Transmission Unit that a network or host could cope with. I originally started off by using the...
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Network Optimisation for Office 365 and other external or cloud services
These are some notes from a short video I just watched. Scanning through these notes will take less time than watching the whole 13 minute video. Plus I’ve added links and more info Latency PsPing is...
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HTC One M8 Dot View Cover Review
I’d read that the HTC Dot View case, code HC M100, could be annoying, but needed something to give my phone some protection as I bought the phone outright and need it to last as long as possible....
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Replace SSL Certificate in Dell OpenManage Server Assistant 7.3
Dell OpenManager Server Assistant is hardware health monitoring and configuration software that can be installed onto PowerEdge servers. It is very useful as it lets you see details of the hardware,...
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Move Maverick folder to external SD card on Android
Maverick is a great mapping tool. It’s very handy because it downloads map tiles to allow maps to be used offline, including Ordnance Survey (for those of us in the UK). However, the map tiles are...
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