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SCCM Query for Microsoft Server 2019

2nd December 201910th November 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - 1 Comment

I’ve not done a post about SCCM queries for a while now so in addition to a load I did some time ago, I thought I’d bring things up to …

SCOM / Guide / Microsoft / Servers

Unable to remove a SCOM Active Alert

9th October 20196th October 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently ran into a problem with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) console where some old alerts would not allow us to remove or clear them. We checked that …

Guide / Microsoft / News / Security / Servers / Windows

Microsoft Update causing Print Spooler Problems – CVE-2019-1367

5th October 20196th October 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Microsoft released an emergency update last week under CVE-2019-1367 which claimed to fix an Internet Explorer exploit. If you are now reading this post, I’m assuming that you have already …

Servers / Guide / Microsoft / Powershell / Windows

Remove Windows Server Disabled Roles and Features Payload Files

16th September 20191st September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are running a Windows Server environment and you are becoming increasing low on system drive space, then you may want to consider removing the built in payload files …

VMWare / Guide / Hyperconvergence / Linux / Nutanix / Servers / Virtualisation

VMWare vCenter Appliance stuck at localhost login screen

19th August 20196th October 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you reboot your VMWare vCenter Appliance, you may get into a situation where it reboots into the localhost login screen instead of the more familiar black and yellow/blue two …

Microsoft / Guide / Servers / Windows

Windows Server 2019 Evaluation Product Keys

29th July 201917th July 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - 4 Comments.

Following on from our popular posts for evaluation product keys for Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016, this post brings us fully up to date with the …

Active Directory / Guide / Microsoft / Powershell / Servers

Get OU Distinguished Name

1st July 20191st July 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

There are many reasons as to why you would need to identify an Active Directory Organisational Unit’s Distinguished Name. Most techies out there will use an AD distinguished name when …

VMWare / Guide / Servers / Virtualisation

Check for Thick Provisioned Disk Space in VMWare

20th May 201925th August 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you want to run a check against your VMWare infrastructure for virtual machines that have thick provisioned disks, you can use VMWare PowerCLI to do this quickly and easily. …

Guide / Microsoft / Powershell / SCOM / SCORCH / Servers

System Center Operations Manager Invalid Management Group Removal

25th February 20199th October 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently carried out some work for a client who had a completely ruined installation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Who had done what to it, we may never …

Guide / Microsoft / News / Servers / Windows

KB4457139 – Windows Server 2008 NIC Issues

2nd October 20182nd October 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We have over the last week or so had problems with Windows Server 2008 servers where, although they seem to be connecting through the network without any problems, like filestores, …

Microsoft / Guide / Servers

Test your SMTP server using Windows Telnet Feature

13th August 201830th June 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you want to test your SMTP server is working correctly, you can use the telnet feature within Windows. The following guide will walk you through the steps to carry …

Guide / Microsoft / Servers / Windows

Enable Windows Task Scheduler History

18th July 201818th April 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - 4 Comments.

How to enable Windows Task Scheduler History information if it is not showing on your computer or server

Guide / Microsoft / News / Servers / Windows

Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818

13th July 201811th August 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 18 Comments.

You may have installed Microsoft Update KB4338818 during Patch Tuesday and now your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is broken right? Maybe even some Windows 7 machines? Well guess what? …

News / Servers

Google Time NTP Public Server

9th July 201823rd June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

You may or may not be aware that Google provides a public NTP server. They provide a free, global time service that you can use to synchronize to Google’s atomic clocks.

Servers / Guide / Microsoft / Windows

Windows Server – Internet Security Blocking Downloads

13th June 20184th October 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are an IT administrator then the chances are that you have come across issues with trying to download files directly from a website to your server. You would …

Guide / Microsoft / Servers / Windows

Windows Server 2016 – Disable Server Manager on Startup

14th May 201827th April 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you, but Server Manager loading up every time I login to a Windows Server 2016 machine drives me nuts! This is especially annoying when using my …

Guide / IIS / Microsoft / Servers / Windows

IIS Management Console to connect to a remote IIS Server

29th March 20171st September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you want to use the IIS Management Console on a technicians computer then you may run into the problem that a lot of people have – simply installing the …

Guide / Microsoft / News / Servers

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) v1.2 for Windows 10 Released – Full Download and Installation Guide

14th November 20169th July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have …