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VMware vCenter 6 Phantom Snapshots

I’ve been using vCenter 6 for a while now and noticed an odd issue pertaining to snapshots. It seems that all guest show a “revert to current snapshot” state even if a snapshot does not actually exist. However viewing under the Snapshot Manger… shows no existing snapshots associated with the virtual machine guests. I’ve noticed […]

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Check Bitlocker Encryption Status, Simple PowerShell Method

If you have enabled Bitlocker encryption on your Windows client and wondering how far along you are in the initial encryption process this quick PowerShell command will help you. Steps The first step is to turn on BitLocker Next, Right click PowerShell and select Run as Administrator Issue the following command: manage-bde -status c: to show the status […]

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Using Get-SPWebTemplate to list available site templates in SharePoint 2013

In this tech-short we will go over a simple yet effective way to list out the available site templates in SharePoint 2013. Using the New-SPSite PowerShell cmdlet allows you to specify the name of a template to use. In my case I was unaware of the name of available templates in my SharePoint installation.  Using the Get-SPWebTemplate […]

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Remove Wireless Profiles in Windows 10

Similar to my previous post ‘Windows 8: Remove Old Wireless Network Profiles‘ the following are steps which can be preformed in both the command prompt or PowerShell prompt. Task: Clean up all wireless profiles in Windows 10 Requirements: PowerShell or Command Prompt Elevated Privileges Steps: Open, a PowerShell prompt or Command prompt as Administrator Enter netsh wlan show profiles […]

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Tech Short: Using PowerShell to join Computer to AD Domain

Working on a server installation I decided to use a simple yet effective power-shell command to join a Windows Server 2012/R2 system to our domain. For the sake of brevity lets just show you. Requirements: Admin access to the computer/server you are joining to the domain along with permissions in the AD domain to join […]

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Tech Short: PowerShell: Networking Diagnostics

Listen ‘tracert’ its not you, its me…  I am not ending my long term relationship with the diagnostic tools which I have used for many years now.  I am just exploring others, and in doing so going on a “break”. I recently starting using PowerShell more often and wondered is there a tool which can do […]