Agreed my post title is a bit dramatic; I am still rolling with it. Announced in Build 2015, Microsoft Edge will be the successor to the Project known as Spartan Microsoft Edge was made specifically for Windows 10. It will have features such as built in note taking and sharing and will also have Microsoft’s Cortana […]
Category: Technical
I spent sometime today renaming SharePoint 2013 Servers for a project I was pulled in on. It involved using PowerShell cmdlets and other administrative tasks. The project required me to “Clone” SharePoint farm servers to make template environments for demonstration and development task. I originally followed steps provided here: Renaming SharePoint then later streamlined the process so its […]
Using Windows task scheduler you can schedule power off and on events for guest systems running in VMware vCenter or a standalone ESXi host. My steps: Create a basic task – give it a name and description (optional) Choose when you want this task to stat Select the start date and time Choose “Start a […]
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: […]
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 {$_.Status -eq “Running”} | Stop-CsWindowsService Start Services Get-CsWindowsService | […]
A quick task on the Lync server where I needed to list running services. Indeed I could do this in the services panel using services.msc but this time I wanted to play in powershell. By typing the following I could list all running services that pertains to Lync Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} ref: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398803.aspx