“First Release” update for Office 365 allows you to get access to updates faster than GA (General Availability). For more info check out Office 365 release options. With the first release option users receive a select set of service updates as early as one week after the official release announcements. To enable First Release in Office 365 do […]
Month: August 2015
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The su Command: Elevate Yourself
OS: Unix / Linux Often called the “Super User” command. The su (short for substitute user) command makes it possible to change a login session’s owner without the owner having to first log out of that session. Although su can be used to change the ownership of a session to any user, it is most commonly […]
I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing. To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks. Open the Hyper-V Management console Right click on VM Guest Select Settings Select the Hard Drive for the VM Guest Click the Edit button Select Compact Click Finish *note* you want to […]
I was facing an issue where vm guest are paused with the following “Paused-Critical Virtual Machine State” message. Each attempt to resume the guest, end in them being pause once again. This happens when the host volume is running low on available disk space. Here are some actions you can take to help with this: Expand […]
In an attempt to connect to a remote Hyper-V host I needed to enable PowerShell Remoting. To enable this you simple run PowerShell as Administrator and issue the following command: Enable-PSRemoting The command runs and then errors with the following output: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Enable-PSRemoting WinRM has been updated to receive requests. WinRM service type changed […]
Weeks of waiting and its here at last. Q. What is it? A. RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) is a Windows Server component for remote management of other computers and server operating systems running Windows. Grab the tools here: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10