Using mstsc on Windows 2008R2 Server to connect to Windows 2003 Server. !!Old school!! And getting an error message dialog with this text: The card supplied requested drivers that are not present on this system. Please try another card Fix Open Remote Desktop...
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[Win32App] app workload is not switched from SCCM, skip app check in.
Problem: Intune Win32App's and Microsoft Edge browser will not install. AAD domain joined Computer successfully auto-enrolled for Intune management wouldn't install the assigned Win32Apps & Microsoft Edge Browser (it did install Office and the MSI based apps)...
Which Insider Preview channel do I need to get Windows 11?
Not working I first chose "Beta Channel (Recommended)" and did a Check for updates and no Windows 11 option appeared Working Then I chose "Dev Channel" and checked for updates and Windows 11 appears!!! Settings in a VMWare Guest so you can install Windows 11 Insider...
Flat file copy options for Windows
GUI Options https://fastcopy.jp/en/ - Fast Copy This one seems to have a nice option to elevate to admin and a lot of options as to how to resolve what to copy or mirror. Command Line...
Why S3-WriteObject Kept the Upload Going When I Control-C’d it
I would recommend just using the AWS Cli for windows instead of powershell Uploading 650MB chunks using S3-WriteObject. Didn't want to choke link during day so CTRL-C'd to exit the powershell script and found in the morning that the upload had happened any way. The...
Windows 7-Zip Chunks, Linux Un-chunk My Heart
Chunking Files with 7-Zip on Windows From windows you can do the whole shebang directions here ==> http://www.techulator.com/resources/6601-How-split-join-files-using-7-zip-free-tool.aspx This is my directions for chunking something on windows and then...
Windows 10 Pro Remote Desktop Client Login Fails
Problem: When attempting to login to a remote RDS Server you see an error message". "Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because a security package error occurred in the transport layer" Systems Affected: Currently this has only been observed on Windows...
Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud – NIS.exe High CPU on Windows XP SP3 VMWare VMs
Just discovered that one of the patches I installed today on my VMWare hosts fixed an issue I had after installing Symantec Endpoint Protection for Small Business Cloud Hosted Edition The old ESXi build was 106549 the new one is 3872664 ( vSphere 5.1 3b ) I don't know...
Export a Mailbox to PST on SBS 2011 / Exchange 2010
This works for me. ; add admin user to Mailbox Import Export role New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role "Mailbox Import Export" –User your_admin_user_name ; trigger the export make sure the target has enough disk space New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox your_mailbox_alias...
I Just Want the SQL Server 2012 Management Studio on my Workstation OK
A rough guide to installing the SQL management studio on my Win 7 Workstation. Run the setup.exe off the install ISO (SQL_Svr_Standard_Edition_2012_w_SP1_English_Download_Only_64bit_-2_X18-78136.ISO) Select the installation option on the side Select "New SQL...
Windows Live Writer Blog Post
Just installed Windows Live Writer and am checking what the blog post written and published from my desktop looks like. What my server room looked like before we went VMWare
Windows 2012 Sending PJL Commands before the Postscript – Arrrggggh
I'm trying to get http://cups-mailto.sourceforge.net/ to work on a Debian 6.0.7 system. I've installed the printer on the Debian Box as "PDF-Converter" and gotten it running over LPD. However when printing a test page from a Windows 2012 server with any of the HP...
Microsoft Update: msxml3.dll: The parameter is incorrect
Disclaimer I have a VBS script that calls: ' Create object Set XmlDocument = WScript.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0") Set XslStylesheet = WScript.CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0") ' load xml doc and stylesheet into above objects ' attempt a transform Result...
Exchange fails to deliver to a Single Mailbox
Problem: I had a user that wasn't getting any internal / external emails. There was nothing in the logs and nothing to indicate why the Local Delivery queue was stalled for all emails that had them as a recipient. Troubleshooting: I Opened the Exchange System Manager...
Autohotkey – Applications that exit gracefully give you consistent backups
I have a Weighbridge application at work that runs on top of Paradox databases. When you exit via the GUI say by clicking the cross in the top right or {ALT} {F4} it does the right thing and cleans up after itself as it closes. If you simply say pskill ProcessName...
I want my At jobs to have a nice name – Use Schtasks
I used at to create a scheduled task that ran at 9:02 every week day: at 09:02 /every:m,t,w,th,f C:\path\to\my\batchfile.bat However when looking at the task in the scheduled tasks control panel all you see is At<id number of at job> e.g. At1. I wanted a nice...
Get the nth line of a text file using Windows Batch Scripting
This is something I just made up to parse a csv file and return a specific value from the first content line (line 2) and the last line of the file. The purpose for it was to get that information and then format a new filename of...
Internet Explorer 7 Cookies
Internet Explorer 7 doesn't seem to like the max-age= way of defining cookie aging. It doesn't like this (i.e. no persistent cookie is created): document.cookie = cookieName + "=" + cookieValue + "; max-age=" + (60*60*24*365) ; // 1 year in seconds But does like this:...