Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
Yesterday we had a client with a large number of servers that was unable to locate the server was hosting their Q:\ drive. You can use the NET USE command in Command Prompt to determine the name of the server hosting the Q:\ mapped drive. Here’s how you can do Read more…
As you can see in the screenshot below we have a client with a small seed drive of just 64 GB that was almost completely out of space. The image shows that they had 2.6 GB of space free but we took that after we had cleared 1.5 GB of Read more…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you likely have heard about HTML5, but most people really have no idea what it is or why it is better. Lets start with the basics and move on. WHAT IS HTML? HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the simple (yes, simple… at Read more…
We recently worked with a client who had a mission critical server they did not want to power down to make hardware changes to. They were thinking because the server was a modern Windows Server 2019 running on VMware 7 with Memory Hot Add enabled, that they could avoid powering Read more…
Why Microsoft Renamed Superfetch to SysMain Superfetch, a feature introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista, was renamed to SysMain in later versions of Windows, starting with Windows 10. This change, while largely unnoticed by everyday users, marked a strategic update to improve the functionality and clarity of the Windows operating Read more…
We had a client who accidentally expanded the volume size on a VMware disk and then wanted to undo that change. Specifically the client had used vmware cloud director to expand the size of a disk but caught their mistake right away and had not expanded the volume in Windows Read more…
As you can see in the screenshot below, we recently found a customer had several of the disks flagged with a triangular yellow exclamation mark (aka: a bang) which was categorized as non critical by the Dell PERC H330 RAID controller. This was concerning because the client had just changed Read more…
We recently had a client who was used to copying files from one folder to another on their server via a file share from their desktop and not see the date modified information change on those files. However we recently migrated them to a new server and now whenever they Read more…
If you have a Windows Network Policy Server aka RADIUS, you have to deal with certificates from time to time. When a certificate expires on your NPS server it can be a real problem to locate where NPS hides the certificate settings.
The number to the right of the users name in the users tab of task manager simply indicates the number of processes that that individual has running. You can click the > twisty to the left of their name to expand the list and see what programs are running under Read more…
One of our technicians ran into a seemingly complex Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) alert which turned out to be a quick fix and something we thought you would be interested in: A new BITS job could not be created. The current job count for the user XYZ\urt.imatthews (60) is Read more…
Today one of our clients had a server with 16GB of RAM that had almost no software on it but was completely max’ed on memory. They did a quick calculation and found that the PROCESSES tab in Task Manager totaled to about 4GB. They wanted to know where the other Read more…
Your ISP might have more information about your personal life than you expected. Of course, the data you provide when you sign up for an internet plan is already revealing. It’s certainly enough for identity theft if it fell into the wrong hands. But, although your ISP probably isn’t watching Read more…
In a word, yes, NetBIOS should be disabled. As always there are some scenarios in which this is not the case but it would be extremely rare to still be using NetBIOS on Windows desktops and servers. Brief History of NetBIOS NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System) has an interesting history: Read more…
Many companies have been notified that the Azure Multifactor authentication server is being retired and for the vast majority of those companies there is absolutely nothing they should do, because they are not using it. Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024 Beginning September 30, 2024, Azure Read more…
PowerShell 5.1 will co-exist nicely with PowerShell 7 and the PowerShell 7 install does NOT require a reboot so you can safely upgrade during business hours