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SCCM Query for Microsoft Server 2019

2nd December 201910th November 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a 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 …

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 …

Microsoft / Guide / Servers / Windows

Windows Server 2019 Evaluation Product Keys

29th July 201914th March 2020 - by A.J. Armstrong - 1 Comment

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 / Windows

Windows Service Stuck in Stopping Mode

24th September 201830th November 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

A simple step by step guide on how to fix a Windows service stuck in stopping mode.

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 201830th June 2019 - 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 …

News / Guide / Microsoft / Servers / Windows

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10

8th December 201517th June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server Technical Preview.

Group Policy / Guide / Microsoft / Servers / Windows

Group Policy Administrative Templates for Windows 10

7th December 201517th June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Microsoft have released the Group Policy Admin Templates for the new release of Windows 10.

Video Guides / Guide / Microsoft / YouTube

Transfer FSMO roles to a new Server

23rd November 201428th November 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 3 Comments.

Continuing our series of YouTube video guides, we came across this one and thought it was very well made and details exactly how to transfer FSMO roles to a new …

Guide / Microsoft / Servers / Video Guides / YouTube

Remove a Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller from an Existing Domain

22nd November 201411th September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We have been viewing some video guides on YouTube over the last few days so we thought that we would share some good ones that we have found that we …

Servers / Guide / Microsoft / Windows

Replication Summary on Domain Controllers

14th November 201428th December 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you have a number of domain controllers within your organisation, you should ensure that they are all replicating correctly without any errors at all. This check should be carried …

Guide / Microsoft

Join Server 2012 R2 Core to your Domain

17th July 201416th August 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are using Server 2012 R2 Core and you wish to join it to the domain, then you can use this simple Powershell command to do it. Add-Computer -DomainName …