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TechShort: PowerShell to Setup VPN Connections

Here is a way we can be consistent with our setup of VPN connections on computers. Using PowerShell this is made simple with a small script on a USB stick, network share or whatever method you choose to get the to the client machine The following is a one line PowerShell command: Add-VpnConnection -Name “VPN Connection Name” […]

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SharePoint 2013: Critical Event 6398, Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileImportJob

My event log has been spamming with messages from Event ID 6398, SharePoint Foundation reading:  The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileImportJob (ID c20274aa-c269-485a-bad8-cd7f539090cc) threw an exception. More information is included below. Access to the requested resource(s) is denied Following various instruction online I restated the FIM services. For those of you wondering what FIM Services […]

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Get Windows 10, available as ISO download

Hi Friends, Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 as a free download for users running the licensed version of Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. Many of you like myself should be able to download and install as an update; but you may need to wait for it to be available. There is another way and that is […]

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Windows 10 Enterprise 2015 LTSB, What’s That?

If you pondered on what is “LTSB”. Here is some “shared” info for you. What is the Long Term Servicing Branch? “Windows 10 uses a new approach to providing updates to users. Traditionally Microsoft would release a version of Windows and then provide updates such as security and bug fixes, but not add any major, […]

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Tech Short: Uninstall Windows Update via Command Prompt

In my previous short I needed to remove a Windows update. This same update was causing similar issue where attempting to remove the update caused explorer to crash. This is where I turn to the handy elevated command prompt to assist me. First this is open command prompt; running as Administrator. Issue the following: Where XXXXXXX represent the […]

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Tech Short: Windows 10 Network Adapter Properties Causing Crash

Attempting to assign a static IP address to my workstation I encountered an issue causing explorer.exe to crash and restart.  The only message in the event log indicating an error was: Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.10240.16397, time stamp: 0x55af15cb Faulting module name: SHELL32.dll, version: 10.0.10240.16399, time stamp: 0x55b04f5f Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x00000000000fc314 Faulting […]