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Error: Setting up PowerShell Remoting

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 […]

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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 | Released

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  

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Tech Short Q&A: What is vCenter Single Sign-On For

What is vCenter Single Sign-On? vCenter Single Sign-On is a feature of VMware vCenter 5, 6 and future vCenter implementations that is an authentication broker which also creates security tokens providing a secure way of accessing your environments. This token exchange mechanism is far superior than the former requirement of each component authenticating separately with a directory service such […]

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Google+ posts from my WordPress blog posted as private

Wow!  And I learn something new every day… I have been using the publicize feature for a long time now to only find out that my post sent to Goolge+ have been private or limited to those in my circles. Now that was unexpected! What I have learned was by default, Google+ sets the visibility of […]

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SharePoint 2013 SP1: Configuration Wizard Issues New Installation, SDDL Invalid SID

During an install of SharePoint 2013 SP1 the following issues was encountered post installation where the configuration wizard would fail with the following error: failed to create sample data “The SDDL string contains an invalid sid or sid that cannot be translated” To resolve this issue I attempted to run all SharePoint servers as the local […]