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Option to mount .iso in Windows 8 missing

Friday, April 10, 2015 By now we are aware that Windows 8 has the ability to mount .ISO files. But what happens when one day you go to click on that .ISO file and the mount option is missing. This is what happened to me.  To fix this little problem the following steps were followed: […]

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Tech Short: Stop and Start Lync Services On A Server

How can I take on this task, let me count the ways… After installing a new certificate on our Lync server I needed to restart the services to complete the change.  I was able to do this with two powershell commands. Stop Services Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} | Stop-CsWindowsService Start Services Get-CsWindowsService | […]

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Tech Short: List Running Lync Services

A quick task on the Lync server where I needed to list running services.  Indeed I could do this in the services panel using services.msc but this time I wanted to play in powershell. By typing the following I could list all running services that pertains to Lync Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} ref: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398803.aspx

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Tech Short: Use Dsquery tool to manage group memberships On-Prem to Office 365

  I had mentioned in a previous post about the inability to self service groups. Problem: on-premises distribution group is synced to a Microsoft Office 365 organization through Active Directory synchronization, migrated users who are owners of the distribution group can’t manage it in Microsoft Exchange Online Solution: Use the Exchange Tools (But we no longer […]

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Windows 10 – Cortana and search stopped working – build 10041

  When I first installed Windows 10, Cortana was working   I didn’t jump into using it right away but later came back to find that it no longer functioned at all. “Are you mad bro” comes to mind.   I would like to avoid a clean install to get this working but seem that […]

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Tech Short: How To Disable and Enable Ports HP ProCurve

Troubleshooting an issue with a switch I needed to disable a port.  Why not share my steps. To disable a single or multiple ports we do the following Log into your switch via console (in my case I SSH in using Putty) When connected type: configure Then issue the following command (note you can tab complete) […]