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Tech Short: Use Windows Management Instrumentation Command to List Windows Updates

To list the updates that have been installed on a Windows 8.1 or Windows 2012 Server simply issue the following command in a command prompt window wmic qfe get hotfixid That’s it

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Uninstall Software using WMI

I touched on this in a previous post here.  Where I needed to remove some software which was installed but was no longer listed in add/remove software of the machine I had been working on. Fortunately by using WMI we can get the necessary info  and tool to remove / change software we no longer […]

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Uninstall of SQL fails with error about RsFx Driver

I was working on uninstalling installations of SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 R2 to later do a clean install of SQL 2012. All seems to be going relatively smooth until I encountered the following message: Warning 26003. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup Support Files cannot be uninstalled because the following products are installed: Microsoft […]