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We have one of our very long standing clients wanting to know why some things are being done on a particular server at about 5:30 AM most mornings. We looked through backup schedules, scheduled tasks, and SQL maintenance plans and other things and couldn’t find anything particularly useful. We also Read more…
If you work with most companies there will come a time when you will need to clean out user profiles that have just too much temporary file junk in them. Earlier this month we spent a few hours developing the script below that deletes: Just run this script in an Read more…
If you are trying to change settings on a printer and you see this error: Printer Settings Could Not Be Saved. This Operation Is Not Supported The solution is likely to disable SHARING.
If you work on Azure Virtual Machines, there will come a time when you need to add CPU or memory. Does A VM Need To Be Off To Resize It? While you do not need to have a VM powered down or de-allocated to make the “size” change, it will Read more…
If you have downloaded Microsoft Edge before you will see this screen: So you have a choice between downloading Microsoft Edge For: You have likely wondered what the difference is. Put simply, the browser core is the same, but the different versions update on different schedules and use slightly different Read more…
If you are trying to expand a disk volume, you may find that the Recovery Partition is blocking the expansion. A few months ago we wrote a short article explaining that it is safe to delete the recovery partition and you can take a snapshot in VMware prior to removal, Read more…
There have been changes in the way Azure is processing some of our old scripts, so we spent some time re-writing them. As such this article is intended to replace a July 2024 article with the same title. This script will create and delete snapshots for all Azure subscriptions and Read more…
In this short video we provide a full explanation of how to use a new free PC optimizing tool from Microsoft called PC Manager which you can download directly from Microsoft HERE.: 0:00 Introduction0:54 Download PC Manager1:24 Install Microsoft PC Manager1:47 What Does Boost Do in PC Manager3:00 Health Check3:31 Read more…
If you work in the IT field and have anything to do with hardware or security, you need to have an awareness of CPU microcode. What is CPU Microcode? You can think of microcode as firmware for your CPU, and like other firmware it is updatable which means it is Read more…
One of our smaller customers had sent us this alert from their LogicMonitor system: LMD436411 warn – BLACK-HV-HOST2 HyperV Virtual Machines – BLACK-TOR-SQL03 operationalStatusThe Hyper-V host BLACK-HV-HOST2 is reporting that VM BLACK-TOR-SQL03 is in an operational state of 3.0, which puts this device in a state of warn. What’s The Read more…
If you are seeing the following error in your Windows System Event log, we likely have the fix: Source: Application Management Group PolicyEvent ID: 103Level: ErrorUser: SYSTEMDescription: The removal of the assignment of application {application name} from policy policy name failed. The error was : %%2 What it is telling you is that GPO Read more…
If you’ve ever needed to make space on a hard drive you should have looked at Advanced System Settings > User Profiles to see if they’re any accounts listed as unknown for people that you know are gone and no longer need their profiles. And if you have been into Read more…
It’s very common to want to allow a small group of people or even a help desk possibly from a third party company manage service provider to manage user accounts in Active Directory. As you can see in the screenshot below it’s not exactly rocket science but there is a Read more…
About a week ago we brought on a new client and immediately noticed, as part of our pre-onboarding due diligence, that they had hundreds of old desktops laptops and servers still in their Active Directory. To help clean up their AD and reduce their attack surface, we provided them with Read more…
If you’ve ever taken a snapshot in Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix, or VMware, you will probably notice that the differencing disk it creates grows in size much faster than a normal disk would. One of our clients was struggling to understand why that could be the case so we provided them Read more…
If you are trying to clean up your hard drive storage you may notice the C:\$Windows.~WS folder and wonder what is in it and if it can be deleted. What is C:\$Windows.~WS The C:\$Windows.~WS folder is a hidden directory created by Windows during the upgrade process to a new version Read more…