A recent issue had my digging through the registry to find a Event Log Channel that had become corrupt/missing since an in-place server upgrade. In
Although extremely rare, there are some pfx files generated by services that don’t have a password protecting them. In order to add a password to
A recent issue on a Windows 11 laptop had me investigation what felt like a proxy issue, that was interfering with network communication, but only
64-bit operating systems are very common, but we still have some applications on Windows that are 32-bit only. This runs in a compatibility layer called
Move your tagged photos from Facebook to Google Photos using a few free-to-use tools. Instructions for Windows.
When using an Adobe Lightroom Classic Catalog stored in OneDrive there’s a few useful ways to make sure it doesn’t spend any extra time syncing
I ran into an issue with an endpoint where after resetting the device (using an InTune Wipe) it wasn’t able to connect to Azure AD
If you don’t have a battery installed or there’s another power condition that’s preventing you from installing a Dell BIOS update, add the following parameter
A very obscure error occurred after a Windows Server upgrade to 2019. Taboo, I know! When trying to start an application that depended on .NET
I was recently trying to get a device to retrieve a new certificate via SCEP and NDES through a Windows Server Certificate Authority. Our HTTPS
Your Artifact Feed URL can be used as a PackageSource in PowerShell for Install-Package. Note that the URL provided when pressing Connect to Feed has
I was recently trying to copy some files from Azure using an SAS token. It was failing with the following error; The remote server returned
Seems there’s an issue with the Asus Strix GTX 970 card when using specifically the DisplayPort (DP) connector on certain monitor models. Symptoms I found
Trying to connect to a VPN failed while running behind my OpenWRT router (Chaos Calmer) from a Windows LAN client. Adding the following software package
To force an early Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8, follow one of the two methods below. You will need administrative privileges to
If you’re on a domain and would like to search Active Directory from any PC, you can run the following command to open the Active Directory query window.
To workaround this issue you’ll need to jump into the registry to enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). This is usually deployed via Group Policy on
Similar to finding the Dell Service Tag via the command line, we can use WMI to retrieve the BIOS Version. This is useful for finding out
No-one likes rearranging their desk to find the little white sticker. It can be run from regular command or PowerShell session. Administrator permissions aren’t required.
Dell BIOS updates have some undocumented command line switches that may be useful for system administrators. These are a few of the notable command-line arguments; In order to