Tuesday, 26 October 2021

Office click-to-run 365, VL etc will not let you add an app if already run with excludes in the XML

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 If you have previously excluded Office apps from your install you may find that re-running without them excluded does not install them. It ...
Monday, 13 September 2021

Find the Recovery Model of all databases in MS SQL

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 Run the following script to list the Recovery Model setting for all DBs in MSSQL SELECT Name, DATABASEPROPERTYEX(Name,'RECOVERY') A...
Friday, 11 June 2021

An odd one. Hyper-V cannot update the Integration Services Setup Disk image

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 Datto reporting: A Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS-Admin - Hyper-V-VMMS monitor in policy Windows: Role - Hyper-V Server was automatically d...
Wednesday, 2 June 2021

List users in a domain group using CMD

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 A nice simple one, to find the membership of a domain group use the following on a domain controller. net group "groupname"
Friday, 28 May 2021

AAD Connect fails with crazy long error that makes no sense.

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 AAD Connect stops syncing. The error is as follows: Start-ADSyncSyncCycle : System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException: System....
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Thursday, 29 April 2021

WiFi section of Windows 10 Settings app not showing on Surface Laptop 2

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 After some updates the WiFi section under Network & Internet in the Windows 10 Settings app disappears. Go to Network adapters in Devi...
Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Windows 10 built-in VPN does not connect does not error (VPN Error 720 when using RASDIAL)

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Windows 10 built-in VPN does not connect does not error. RRAS showed connection for a few seconds then no connection. Open Device Manager Ex...

Installing .net 4 without Server Manager or PowerShell

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 A software consultant uninstalled .net 4 breaking the Datto agent. I instinctively go to open Server Manager, oh wait, it has no icon. I go...
Monday, 8 March 2021

The Disk is Offline Because of Policy Set by an Administrator

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  1. Open Powershell as administrator 2. Enter get-disk 3. Note the number of the drive (2 in the example above) 4. Enter set-disk number -i...
Friday, 16 October 2020

Getting a GoTek floppy drive emulator working

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So here's a slightly odd post, why am I playing with GoTek floppy emulators? Well, I rediscovered my Amstrad CPC6128 8 bit computer from...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

Stop annoying Office365 service update emails

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  Go to: https://admin.microsoft.com/adminportal/home?ref=MessageCenter&showPref=1 A side panel will open on the right.               ...

Find the location of MS SQL MDF and LDF files

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Run the following query against the Master DB to return the location of User DB file locations. You can then select all in the results pane ...