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NAKIVO Backup & Replication v9.1: Tape, Linux, and physical workstation backup
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VMware vSphere Replication (VR) 8.2 limitations
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New VMware CPU licensing audit with PowerShell module
News of the VMware license change has many vSphere administrators looking to audit their vSphere licensing. Using PowerCLI automation makes this much easier. Let's see how to perform the new VMware processor licensing audit with PowerShell.
setupconfig.ini: Customizing the installation of Windows 10 feature updates
If you install a new release of Windows 10 via Windows Update or WSUS, the automatic installation starts as soon as the update is available for a PC. However, you do not have to accept the standard procedure; instead, you can control the setup via the configuration file setupconfig.ini....
Action1: Manage endpoints from the cloud
Action1 is a cloud-based software solution that enables management of your endpoints with capabilities including installing/uninstalling software, providing software/hardware inventory, patch management, and configuration management.
How to access a user's Windows desktop without knowing their password
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Install and activate Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 on Windows Server
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SolarWinds Dameware Remote Support: Remote control for Windows, Mac, and Linux
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Web App for Containers on Azure
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AdRem Software NetCrunch: rule-based monitoring, automatic alert correlations, and pending and conditional alerts
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VMware moving to per-core licensing
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Upgrade from FRS 2008R2 to DFSR 2019 SYSVOL replication
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Group Policy settings reference for Windows 10 1909
With each new release of Windows 10, Microsoft used to document all the settings for the group policies in an Excel spreadsheet. This, however, has not been done since Version 1809. With a little help from PowerShell and by studying the ADMX file structure, I have now created one...
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From this instruction here "launch VBoxWindowsAdditions.exe" It assumes the guest OS is a windows box too. What happens if the guest OS is a Linux Box instead?
None in the post will work.
0Thanks for the code Adam, very helpful and nicely documented.
0Razesh commented on Windows Admin Center: Creating and configuring VMs and installing a guest OS 9 hours, 14 minutes ago
How to install a third-party software inside a guest OS using WAC
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0 In my environment I have a service account I created and applied the permissions to it and a dedicated OU for newly imaged machines as described in your post. I've also tried the delegation wizard and specifically making the user domain admin. I don't think it's a big deal, but the only way I can get machines to join the domain with this service account is by using the following properties in the customsettings.ini:
JoinDomain=contoso.com
UserDomain=contoso.com
UserID=service_ba
UserPassword=C0mplexP@ssw0rd
Any idea why the DomainAdmin,DomainPassword,DomainAdminDomain, properties will not allow the user to join users to the domain through MDT? I can join machines manually after the deployment fails with the account. When I look in the deployment log it shows that it's trying to join the domain, but cannot locate DNS (DHCP has correct DNS settings, and DNS records are correct obviously since I can join machines manually). Also the ZTI log shows it has tried too many time to join the domain count=4. I'd appreciate your thoughts.
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Leos Marek replied to the topic Notifications missing? in Community Forum 1 day, 2 hours ago
Reload does not help. Yeah I know I can remove them manually, I just think they were used to go away automatically if you clicked on it from the hover 🙂 no big deal.
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Michael Pietroforte replied to the topic Notifications missing? in Community Forum 1 day, 2 hours ago
Usually they are marked read. If they are not, you can reload the page or hover with the mouse over your avatar in the top menu and remove the notification from there.
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Leos Marek replied to the topic Notifications missing? in Community Forum 1 day, 3 hours ago
Understood. One more thing - wasnt the notification deleted if you clicked on it? I click on your notification about new reply, get to the post, but the notification is still shining.
0 Fred’s Not Here commented on Retrieve Azure NIC properties using PowerShell 1 day, 7 hours ago
Any guidance on how to pull the IP address from an Azure Virtual Machine? I'd like to parse the VM's in my subscription and then output the VM name, resource group and IP address
Thx
MG
0David Figueroa replied to the topic Redirect after login in Community Forum 1 day, 7 hours ago
Reloading the page is perfect! Thank you 🙂
David F.
0Guys, please help me understand, when it comes to this command, how and where can I check and find out the type for IPaddress as it's mentioned here as System.Net.IPAddress
$new.RecordData.IPv4Address = [System.Net.IPAddress]::parse('192.168.0.254')
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Obviously, Microsoft desperately tries to squeeze out some money from Windows by harvesting more personalized user data. Interestingly, when Apple introduced the Apple Watch feature that allows you to unlock your Mac with the watch, they did just the opposite. For security reasons I could no longer use my iCloud account to logon to my Mac and had to switch to a local account. Of course, the iCloud features work just like before. It is just a different account with a different password and I only need the iCloud account when I actually use the cloud. So Apple gave up the advantage of collecting user data for security reasons. You can clearly see the different philosophies of the two companies here. Whereas Apple is a customer first company, Microsoft is a Microsoft first company.
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