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With PolicyPak MDM Edition, you can extend Group Policy—including preferences and security—with any MDM service and Windows 10, whether...
ScriptRunner is an automation and delegation solution that uses PowerShell. This article builds on Timothy Warner's excellent introduction to...
Veeam updated their industry-leading data backup and replication software for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere. Learn what's new and...
PA File Sight fills the security and auditing void left by Windows File Server. It does this by providing...
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Install SQL Server 2019 (Express) on Windows Server Core and activate remote management
Microsoft recommends Windows Server Core for most infrastructure services and for applications such as Exchange 2019. You can also run SQL Server on Server Core. However, the installation requires a few steps from the command line.
SystemTools Hyena: Simplify Active Directory management
Managing Windows and Active Directory infrastructures can be cumbersome using default Microsoft management consoles. In this post, we review Hyena, a tool that helped simplify Active Directory management for nearly twenty years.
ScriptRunner Version 2019R2: PowerShell scripting for teams with self-service
ScriptRunner is an automation and delegation solution that uses PowerShell. This article builds on Timothy Warner's excellent introduction to ScriptRunner and focuses on the new features now available.
SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server: A versatile syslog solution
Logging system messages and events can provide valuable insights into troubleshooting issues as well as security. In our review of SolarWinds® Kiwi Syslog® Server, we take a look at a syslog solution that provides many different features such as capturing logs, creating rules, filtering data, and actions.
Windows Server 2016/2019 audit policy best practice
The ability to audit events in your environment is crucial for the discovery and investigation of security incidents. Therefore, it is important to know the best practice for configuring the Windows Server 2016/2019 audit policy.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): VMware cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), which is the heart of the VMware on AWS deal. In this post, we'll have a look at some of its details and what its advantages and disadvantages are for the datacenter admin.
New features in SQL Server 2019 GA
SQL Server 2019 has now been released as GA and offers many great new features. Let's take a look at the new features in SQL Server 2019 GA and see the new capabilities contained in this release.
Group Policies in Windows 10 1909: ADMX download, three new GPO settings
Shortly after the release of the latest Windows 10 version, Microsoft published the corresponding administrative templates for the group policies. Compared to release 1903, the changes are only minor and the documentation hasn't been updated since Windows 10 1809.
Fixing WSUS issues with the SolarWinds Diagnostic tool for the WSUS agent
This article will not tell you how to fix all the issues with WSUS (call Microsoft for that), but it will show you how to use another excellent, free tool from SolarWinds to tell you if the client-side agent for WSUS has the right configuration. This can potentially save...
Encrypt event logs and files with PowerShell and group policies
A new feature of Windows 10 and Server 2016 is Protected Event Logging, which encrypts sensitive data in the event log. It uses the open standard Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), which PowerShell supports with several cmdlets. You can also use them to encrypt or decrypt files.
Verify compatibility before upgrade with vSAT (vSphere Assessment Tool)
If you are tasked with upgrading the VMware vSphere infrastructure, you might be interested in the vSphere Assessment Tool (vSAT). The tool enables you to streamline the entire upgrade process and helps to determine which host(s) might not be compatible with your vSphere version. If you have older hardware,...
Issuing certificates for document encryption (Cryptographic Message Syntax)
Beginning with version 5, PowerShell supports the IETF standard Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) to encrypt data or log entries. It requires a certificate that has been issued specifically for this purpose. If you want to request the certificate from a Windows CA, you must first set up a template...
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Microsoft has jow starting rolling out a new update to the Microsoft Edge browser on Windows.-
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Hello Windows Insiders, today were releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19037.1 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast and Slow rings. If you want a complete look at what build is in which Insider ring, head over to Flight Hub. -
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A German blog reader has encountered issues after using an Inplace Upgrade from Windows 7 SP 1 to Windows 10 May 2019 Update when Microsoft Office 2013 is installed. Here is some information that might save some work for those affected. -
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This week, the emerging theme of the community posts is the cross-platform, cross-cloud, extensible nature of Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps is not just a product, but a platform, enabling the community to expand and improve on our engineering efforts to support the growing variety of technologies around the world. -
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Microsoft has started to push the Windows 10 November 2019 Update (Windows 10 version 1909) onto users. -
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.NET Core 2.2 was released on December 4, 2018. As a non-LTS (“Current”) release, it is supported for three months after the next release. .NET Core 3.0 was released on September 23, 2019. As a result, .NET Core 2.2 is supported until December 23, 2019. -
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Microsoft announced this week that it won't offer Notepad through the Microsoft Store anymore. Notepad, the default plain text editor on Windows, is included in every version of the operating system. -
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UPDATE: We have also released Cumulative Update Build 19035.1000 (KB4533028) today that includes no new changes but helps us test our servicing pipeline for 20H1. Hello Windows Insiders, today were releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19035 (20H1) to Windows Insiders in BOTH the Fast ring and Slow rings.
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Thanks Mike, it worked like a charm.
Wilco Alsemgeest commented on Remote Desktop Manager: A powerful and full-featured connection manager 12 hours, 35 minutes ago
I'm using this application for more then 6 years now and have never found any reason to not use it.
Since 3 years it's even the default Manager within our organization for server connection management.Personally I can't live without it.
Hi Mike
Thank you for this great article, really one of the best in this topic!
Maybe you can help me with my question. I have deployed the printers from the print server, in this case they are under GPO User ConfigurationPoliciesWindows SettingsDeployed Printers
What is the difference between you method any mine?I'm experience issues with the reliability. Some users don't get the desired printers.
Thank you for your help.
Best Regards
Mark commented on Integrate Slack notifications in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 12 hours, 36 minutes ago
Is there a way to send messages from Slack back to TFS using the #TFSID convention?
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Kapil M Bhudhia commented on Install Docker on Windows Server 2019 1 day, 3 hours ago
Hi Swapnil,
Thanks for the excellent post. I have this query about Docker EE on Windows Server 2019 - as I understand from what you mention here and from my own personal experience that one cannot run a Linux container on a Windows Server 2019 as easily as you can on Windows 10 (with Docker CE). On Windows 10 (with Docker CE) there is an out of box support for running Linux containers (one just has to switch to Linux containers in the Docker UI) - I really struggle to see as to why was is this out of the box experience missing for Windows Server 2019?
Also, what would you suggest if one wishes to run Linux containers in production and the host operating system is constrained to Windows Server 2019? Clearly LCOW is ruled out since it still experimental.
I am looking forward to your forth coming post about LinuxKit and Linux Subsystem 2 - can one use them in production?
Thanks and Regards,
Kapil.
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VS Code extension Unicode Substitutions does a great job of fixing this issue.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GlenBuktenica.unicode-substitutions
if you modify base image.. time to start again from scratch.
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Paolo Maffezzoli replied to the topic Best network monitoring tool? in IT Administration Forum 2 days, 2 hours ago
And another network tool that can help you is MiTeC Network Scanner, a multi-use freeware tool.
It is a free multi-threaded ICMP, Port, IP, NetBIOS, ActiveDirectory and SNMP scanner with many advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program performs ping sweep, scans for opened TCP and UDP ports, resource shares and services.
For devices with SNMP capability available interfaces are detected and basic properties displayed.
In addition you have to edit results, save/load results to/from CSV and print network device list and any data in any section can be exported to CSV.
It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local IP range.Scan features:ActiveDirectory
Network neighbourhood
Ping (ICMP)
IP Address
MAC Address (even across routers)
MAC Vendor
Device name
Device domain/workgroup
Logged user
Operating system
BIOS, Model and CPU
System time and Up time
Device description
Type flags (SQL server, Domain controller etc.)
Remote device date and time
TCP and UDP port scanning
SNMP services.
Installed services on device
Shared resources
Sessions
Open Files
Running processes
Terminal sessions
Event Log
Installed software
SAM accounts
WMI Queries
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Nater commented on Install RSAT 1809 (and other optional features) in WSUS environments 2 days, 13 hours ago
This worked. I followed the instructions to get it working via GPO. But for "Checking another setting for troubleshooting" there is a second GPO setting I had to disable. Computer Configuration - Policies - Administration Templates - System - Internet Communication Management - Internet Communication Settings . . . and then make sure "Turn off access to all Windows Update features" is set to Not Configured. This also will block it from installing. Thanks!
