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We have 900 days until Windows Server 2012 (and 2012R2) goes End of Life. Here’s how you can use PowerShell to report back the number of days till a deadline. Details on the Windows Server 2012 Lifecycle can be found here: docs.microsoft.com To work out how many days until a certain date we can define two variables. …
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At Microsoft Ignite Spring 2021 it was announced that Windows Admin Center was now available for Azure VMs through the portal. This post covers how to configure that new feature in PowerShell. For the Admin Center to work we need two things - firstly we need to enable access from the machine accessing the portal to the …
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A surprise one from your friendly neighbourhood IT Support this afternoon. A laptop running Windows 10 has started playing back all the sound picked up by the Microphone- my voice was being echoed back (with a slight delay) even when no applications were running. The solution here is found in a setting in the Windows …
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Troubleshooting connectivity between application and database servers in Azure. Symptoms An application server in Azure can’t connect to an IaaS SQL Server on Windows (also in Azure). The Connection Troubleshoot utility in the Azure Portal says network connectivity between the App server and SQL server on port 1433 is …
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This snippet takes the export of the Windows Security log and returns a list of user ids from within it. Exporting the Logs Open Event Viewer in Windows, select the Security Log and choose Save All Events As…. - save the file as a Comma Delimited CSV. Open the exported file in Notepad and add ,Description to the end …
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A quick script that came up in response to a situation where I wanted to know the date a workstation on the network was last built without visiting the machine or interrupting the currently logged on user. PowerShell to the rescue! The WMI property InstallDate comes into play here. 1(Get-WmiObject …
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Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ends in January 2020- just two years from the date of this post. Four years ago I put up a script to find XP and 2003 VMs, and I’ve modified this to search a vSphere environment for powered on VMs running Server 2008 as a Guest OS: 1Get-VM | 2 Where {$_.PowerState -eq …
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Using the manage-bde command you can check the Bitlocker encryption status on both the local Windows computer but also remote devices on the local area network. For example, to check the encryption status of the C: drive on the computer “WS12345” the following command could be used 1manage-bde -status -computername …
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