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Installing HP branded Windows on a Virtual server

My customer has bought a Hewlett-Packard server with a Windows Server 2012 ROK (Reseller Option Kit) license.
However this customer had some issues with the installation of the license on the Hyper-V guest server. Since the Windows server does not recognize the ‘hardware’ as a Proliant server, licensing will not succeed.

However there is a simple solution…

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Azure Backup Mail Report Script

Jocha previously released a very popular mail report-script for Windows Backup. A downside with the new Azure backup-agent is that it did not offer mail reports… until today!

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Fix for slow “Downloads” folder in Windows 10

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been noticing that clicking the “Downloads” folder in Windows Explorer took a long time to load.
After a bit of research, it turns out Windows 10 tries to guess…

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Breaking into a Windows System

Do you ever get that sinking feeling, when you’ve forgotten the root password to your test lab?  Again?

I hate it too!  So I decided to figure out a way around it, using a work around…

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Detect and Elevate a PowerShell session

We’ve set out to help a customer with automation within their IT department.
Some daily tasks require an elevated prompt, there is no way around it. But it’s not obvious how to check if the current prompt is elevated, or how to elevate the session. So here is a how-to…

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Special characters in HTML

Special characters in HTML

When you want to write special characters in a HTML document sometimes it will interpret it as code. Heres a list of the most commonly used characters and what to replace them with.

WordPress: Hacks for the Media Uploader

WordPress: Hacks for the Media Uploader

Today I implemented Fancybox on the site. Although Wordpress had to be hacked a bit for this to work. By default WP will add a bunch of weird classes and properties that will screw up plugins. This is how I managed to fix it.

Auditing Group Changes in Active Directory

Auditing Group Changes in Active Directory

A customer of ours asked us to look into making their environment more secure. However we noticed that they did not audit Group/User changes in their Active Directory, we adjusted this and here’s a quick guide how to deploy it in your corporation.

Manage Windows Server 2008 from Server 2012

Manage Windows Server 2008 from Server 2012

After installing Windows Server 2012 and booting up you are welcomed by the new, greatly improved Server Manager.
This new tool is however not compatible with previous server versions out-of-box.

Access-based enumeration in Windows Server 2012

Access-based enumeration in Windows Server 2012

Yesterday I migrated our main file server to Windows Server 2012.
Noticed that Access-based enumeration was not working, I couldnt find the setting to re-enable it, or any good information on the web as to where it had gone.

Could not find an available image BootImageID

Could not find an available image BootImageID

After setting up Windows 7 x64 I was asked to verify that SCCM would work for 32-bit aswell. However after pressing F12 the TS would not start.
When checking SMSPXE.log I found the following…

RDP dying after Windows 2008 R2 SP1 update

RDP dying after Windows 2008 R2 SP1 update

Ran into this problem this morning when installing Service Pack 1 for Windows 2008 R2. Service Pack installs successfully, but after we couldn’t login via remote desktop services. The fix was easy to deploy…

Volume Shadow Copy and DHCP issue

Volume Shadow Copy and DHCP issue

After installing DHCP on Windows Server 2008 R2, you may start to see an error message in the event logs. Inspection of the detailed tab of the event log entry will show information about the process that generated the error…