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Azure and web automation with VisualCron
VisualCron is an automation engine for Windows, providing the ability to run tasks based on times or events. Client/server architecture provides centralized management. Below, I review how well VisualCron interacts with cloud-based and web-based services. Specifically, I'll cover transferring files into Azure and using a web macro to automate...
VMware memory optimization
Over time with the evolution of VMware vSphere, there have been some changes to VMware memory optimization techniques and their implementation.
Windows Terminal: Microsoft's next console for all command lines
Windows Terminal, announced at the build conference in May, is now available as a preview in the Microsoft Store. In the future it should become the common console for all shells and command-line programs. Currently, it stands out from the conventional console primarily because of its design options.
Cleaning up lingering Hyper-V VHD snapshots
Snapshots or checkpoints in Hyper-V allow you to create point-in-time instances of where your virtual machine (VM) was including memory. Snapshots are great for quickly reverting changes to multiple points in time but, if not managed properly, can soon turn into a headache.
Free Hyper-V Server 2019: New features and limitations
After about a seven-month delay, Microsoft finally published the free Hyper-V Server 2019. As usual, the new version benefits from some innovations of the full product as well as add-ons for Windows Server. These include the Admin Center and Core App Compatibility, which allows Microsoft Management Console (MMC) execution.
Conditional Access in Office 365
Last month, Microsoft announced via a blog post that Microsoft 365 Business subscriptions would now include Azure Active Directory (AD) Conditional Access policies. For those who don't know, Conditional Access policies were previously only available to Azure AD premium subscribers. The feature allows a tenant administrator to define policies...
SolarWinds Access Rights Auditor: Free Active Directory and file server risk assessment
Learn how SolarWinds Access Rights Auditor freeware can help you get better insights into your organizational security regarding Active Directory (AD) and file share permissions.
When your VMware ESXi host is in a non-responding state
There are many reasons for ESXi to "disappear" (become grayed out) in the vCenter Server view. Today's post will teach us some tips to troubleshoot an ESXi host in a non-responding state.
Manage Active Directory user SPNs with PowerShell
Service principal names (SPNs) are attached to user and computer Active Directory (AD) objects; you can add, remove, or modify them at will. One way to manage SPNs is to use the ActiveDirectory PowerShell module. This module contains the Get-Ad* and Set-Ad* cmdlets capable of reading and writing SPNs...
Display RDP sessions on HiDPI monitors
The excitement about your new 4K monitor will quickly fade if applications cannot cope with the high resolution of HiDPI monitors. One specific problem concerns Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections because they lack the means for adjusting the display setting. There is no universal solution for it, but individual...
How to restart VMware ESXi management agents
One error message VMware ESXi gives is a message saying, "Virtual machine creation may fail because the agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host." During troubleshooting scenarios, this message basically says the ESXi management agent isn't communicating with the host.
Goverlan: An on-premises remote support software for IT Management
Goverlan Reach is a software-based self-hosted remote support solution that excels at helping admins configure and control systems remotely. It comprises the Goverlan Reach Operator Console (used by technicians and system administrators), client agents, and the optional Goverlan Reach Server (used to manage policies, audit tech actions and control...
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According Microsoft, their Chromium-based Edge browser is now ready for enterprise testing. The company today released the offline installer along with updated ADMX files for Group Policy.-
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Houston, we have a problem! 2.300 computers running Windows XP on the UK Nation Health Service.
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You've mentioned, this Module will actually install the module on the remote server if its missing - but how? Will it use the local resources?
Does that mean, that all servers must have internet connectivity? If yes - how can I implement it without internet connection?
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I was actually looking for such simple and efficient information for my Linux environment, but your explanation and your approach in here is so clear and structured that I could easily understand and apply it in my Linux environment. Thank you.
Hi Vladan,
nice post there. Some comments from my side:
TPS - nice feature, usefull for VDI yes. But saying that the vulnerability is unlikely to happen in production environment - well, its the case for many (or most) such vulnerabilities, but still this needs to be taken into consideration. Same as you pay life insurance when the probability of happening something is really small.
Compression - this brings some CPU overhead and the gain is not so big.
Swapping to host cache - even if going to SSD, the speed compared to RAM is still reduced by large numbers there.
In general I would say all of these technologies were not really created to be used on daily basis in production env, but rather handling overcommit situations in order to prevent the VM stop. Also, overcommitting memory is not likely to be seen in production env as the RAM modules are quite cheep and the performance degradation is too high. For dev/test its OK.
Cheers Leos
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This is just Amazing. A big Thank You for all the efforts in sharing the knowledge.
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Change PowerShell console syntax highlighting colors of PSReadLine 1 day, 13 hours agoPSReadLine 2.0.0-beta1 has this breaking change.
Breaking changes:
* Set-PSReadLineOption options have changed
- To specify colors, use the new `-Color` parameter and pass a Hashtable
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Change PowerShell console syntax highlighting colors of PSReadLine 1 day, 15 hours agoI tried with the the current version installed with Windows 1903 and the help file mentions TokenKind but it doesn't recognize the paramater. I had to do Set-PSReadlineOption -Colors @{Command = "Blue"} as an example.
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