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In VMware, the terms “delete” and “remove” have distinct meanings: If you want to keep the VM’s files for future re-registration, you should select “remove from inventory.” If you want to delete the VM and its files permanently, you should select “delete from disk, like you can see we did, Read more…
If you work with most companies there will come a time when you will need to clean out user profiles that have just too much temporary file junk in them. Earlier this month we spent a few hours developing the script below that deletes: Just run this script in an Read more…
If you are trying to change settings on a printer and you see this error: Printer Settings Could Not Be Saved. This Operation Is Not Supported The solution is likely to disable SHARING.
If you work on Azure Virtual Machines, there will come a time when you need to add CPU or memory. Does A VM Need To Be Off To Resize It? While you do not need to have a VM powered down or de-allocated to make the “size” change, it will Read more…
If you have LDAPS on your Domain Controllers, you might want to know what is using it. In our case, we had a new customer with an partially configured LDAPS and we wanted to know what, if anything, was even trying to use it. The solution is to use WireShark Read more…
If you have downloaded Microsoft Edge before you will see this screen: So you have a choice between downloading Microsoft Edge For: You have likely wondered what the difference is. Put simply, the browser core is the same, but the different versions update on different schedules and use slightly different Read more…
There have been changes in the way Azure is processing some of our old scripts, so we spent some time re-writing them. As such this article is intended to replace a July 2024 article with the same title. This script will create and delete snapshots for all Azure subscriptions and Read more…
If you work in the IT field and have anything to do with hardware or security, you need to have an awareness of CPU microcode. What is CPU Microcode? You can think of microcode as firmware for your CPU, and like other firmware it is updatable which means it is Read more…
If you see the following error in your event logs there are two easy fixes: Eventsource: Windows System Event Log Windows Event ID: 1028 Message: The DHCP service failed to initialize the audit log. The following error occurred: Access is denied. You can either disable DHCP logging or give the Read more…
Last week we have a client who wanted to audit their file shares. They had set up their permissions NTFS permissions properly by putting USERS into GROUPS and then assigning those groups to RESOURCES (i.e. the shares). That meant all we had to do was export a list of all Read more…
We recently produced a report of how many unused / free IP addresses were available is each of our customers DHCP scopes. (HERE is the simple script to create that list). As you can see in the screenshot below, we found a negative number free IP’s in one of the Read more…
If you are seeing the following error in your Windows System Event log, we likely have the fix: Source: Application Management Group PolicyEvent ID: 103Level: ErrorUser: SYSTEMDescription: The removal of the assignment of application {application name} from policy policy name failed. The error was : %%2 What it is telling you is that GPO Read more…
Below is a very simple PowerShell command to export a list of IP address reservations in a DHCP server
If you see an EXPORT – COMPLETED WITH ERRORS message in your Azure Synchronization Service Manager, double click on it and see if tells you: This error indicates that a deleted object was recovered from the recycle bin in Azure ADbefore Azure AD Connect was able to confirm its deletion. Read more…
If you’ve ever needed to make space on a hard drive you should have looked at Advanced System Settings > User Profiles to see if they’re any accounts listed as unknown for people that you know are gone and no longer need their profiles. And if you have been into Read more…
It’s very common to want to allow a small group of people or even a help desk possibly from a third party company manage service provider to manage user accounts in Active Directory. As you can see in the screenshot below it’s not exactly rocket science but there is a Read more…