Sending SNMP Traps of Windows Events
Furthering my build-out for a monitoring solution which includes Observium as the primary SNMP polling system, I am writing an application to handle SNMP traps from my Windows…
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Extend Office 2016 Trial
Extending the Office 2016 trial is slightly different than the Office 2013/Office365. An expired trial window pops up when you launch an Office 2016 application: If you just…
The vpn client agent was unable to create the interprocess communication depot.
When installing Cisco AnyConnect VPN client, encountered an error: The vpn client agent was unable to create the interprocess communication depot. This error is due to Internet Connection…
The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with.
I have been fielding a few calls very recently where a computer was upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 automatically to a user's surprise, so they then…
Batch Script Add Windows Users using Netsh
The following batch script will add a group of users to Windows, set no password, and require a password change at first logon. @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set…
Use netsh to set interface IP static or dhcp
Get Configuration Info Using the command below, you can gather information on the adapter's current configuration. Make note of the connection name since that is what is used…
Join Nano Server to a Domain
To join my Windows Server 2016 Nano server to my test domain I used the djoin.exe (Domain Join) command. From a domain controller, or server already joined to my…
Create Nano Server Image
I was trying to build a Nano Server image (2016 Tech Preview 5) and kept getting the following error: Turns out that is because the documentation is not…
GPO to block regsvr32 AppLocker Bypass Vulnerability
A recently discovered method of bypassing AppLocker by using regsvr32.exe, poses a threat to users on Windows 7, 8/8.1, and 10 (Professional or Enterprise editions). To work around…
Speed up Send/Receive in Outlook 2013 Synchronized Folders
Ran into a performance issue for an end-user today where the Send/Receive process was hanging on synchronizing subscribed folders. One method to help speed up this process was…
Get All Virtual Machine Guest OS in Powershell
Continuing with learning some Powershell, I cooked this up which will connect to the vCenter server and get all the VM's and list the name, operating system and…
System and Compressed Memory
I was looking at my system’s performance (Windows 10 Build 10565) and noticed something I hadn’t seen before “System and compressed memory” utilizing about 500MB. Looking into this…
Microsoft Camera Codec on Windows 10
I just installed Microsoft Windows 10 Technical Preview and have been going through and setting up some of my software for testing. I noticed that Windows isn't generating…
Upgrade to Windows 10 Free
Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade, within the first year of release, for users who are running Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1. Free…
Clearing Command and Buffer History in Powershell
Clear Powershell’s last 10 commands: clear-history -count 10 -newest After executing that, use get-history to see what’s left… Clear the console buffer by scripting F7+2: [system.reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname("System.Windows.Forms") [System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::Sendwait('%{F7 2}')…