Moto X VZW Developer Edition (XT1060): Bootloader Unlock, TWRP (Recovery),...
The developer edition is pretty clean from the get-go, but its primary advantage does come from the unlockable bootloader. It wasn’t nearly as smooth of a process as my Galaxy Nexus, but no Nexus 5 on...
View ArticleError – Active Directory Domain Services could not configure the computer...
You’re having issues demoting a DC (without using the force and metadata cleanup) You see something similar to this in your dcpromo.log 03/21/2014 15:00:40 [INFO] Error - Active Directory Domain...
View ArticleLogging in Powershell
Logging is really, really important for powershell (or any scripts IMO). Yes, your scripts should be self-documenting and clear, but you just never know when or how things will go wrong. Especially if...
View ArticleCustomizing LIbreOffice 4.x for Windows Deployment
After LibreOffice 3.5, there are a lot of additional customizations in the MSI installer[1]. What you Can Customize from the MSI We run a mix of MS Office and LibreOffice for the TS/RDS servers, so the...
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Sharepoint 2012 Account Expired: Non-Administrators Cannot Log INto...
I had users that were (seemingly) randomly losing access to a sharepoint farm, but the administrators could still connect. Some digging in the Application Event Logs for Sharepoint revealed: The...
View ArticleFixing Sleepy Nics in Windows Server
After hearing about sleepy nics from an Exchange field engineer Mike O’Neill on RunAs Radio Show #367: EHLO with Mike O’Neill, I decided to incorporate the process into our buildouts and possibly via...
View ArticleRD Web Access Was Not Able to Access Session Host
RD Web Access was not able to access <RD Session Host server name>. Verify that the RD Session Host server name was entered correctly, that the server is running and connected to the network, and...
View ArticlePowershell 32-bit and PowerCLI – Web Proxy Error
While trying to launch VMWare PowerCLI in 32-bit mode (to run certain commands like New-OSCustomizationSpec) I was getting an error error creating the web proxy specified in the...
View ArticlePowering off All Guests and Entering Maintenance Mode with VMWare PowerCli
We have a smaller, non-production cluster in our office that is, sadly attached to a Windows Storage server. And, given certain security requirements, we have to keep up to date (within 30 days) of...
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A Better Powershell Console with Cmder (ConEmu) and PsReadLine
We’re making a better console. All of them, better consoles. I don’t think I have to tell any Windows administrator that Powershell, while not perfect, is a God send compared to the old cmd days. But,...
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VMWare Tools Event Log Spam (Error 1000)
VMWare Tools (in 5.1 and 5.5 at least) can be a bit verbose in the Windows Event Logs. This is covered in KB2036350 Upgrading to VMware Tools 5.x causes log spew with the message: Error in the RPC...
View ArticleVMWare Lost path redundancy to storage with EqualLogic Arrays
We were getting some transient alarms in VMWare similar to: Lost path redundancy to storage device naa.64ed2ad569ca2e943e0a550600002009. Path vmhba37:C2:T0:L0 is down. Affected datastores:...
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Powershell Script to Help Find Windows Uninstall Strings
Uninstallstring, uninstallstring ? { $_ } thou uninstallstring Sometimes it can be a pain to find uninstall strings, and they can often be in a lot of places. I haven’t found the WMI calls to be...
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PowerCli Helper Functions for your Profile
I’ve found the more I use PowerCLI the more I find the need to write some quick and easy helper functions for my $profile. Using PsReadline to Show Which VMWare Servers You Are Connected To Sometimes I...
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Dell PowerEdge Server Drivers Extraction for MDT (WinPE and OS)
Dell offers nicely bundled Client CAB Drivers for their line of workstations. They also offer a fairly large line of driver update and installation tools including the sometimes-hard-to-find Dell...
View ArticleRemoving Stubborn Orphaned Active Directory (Chil) Domain
Say you’re using ntdsutil to remove an offline, orphaned domain as per KB230306 and you get an error like DsRemoveDsDomainW error 0x2162(The requested domain could not be deleted because there exist...
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