Problem You attempt to use a Windows 10 workstation to remote desktop to a server but notice that the connection fails with the following error message: An authentication error has occurred. The function requested is
Problem You’ve enabled PSRemoting on a remote server or desktop and attempt to use the Invoke-Command PowerShell cmdlet to remotely install an application with the following cmdlet: Invoke-Command -computername wkst-122 -ScriptBlock {Start-Process -FilePath ‘C:tempagentVMware-viewagent-x86_64-6.2.1-3284564.exe’ -ArgumentList
Problem You’ve downloaded OpenSSL and have began the process of generating a new CSR to submit to a Certificate authority but notice that executing the following command: req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout mykey.pem -out
One of my biggest pet peeves when asking fellow colleagues to delete a user’s profile on a desktop or server is when they do so by launching Windows Explorer, navigate to the C:Users folder then
Problem You attempt to run Windows updates on a Windows 7 desktop but notice that it fails with the following message: Windows could not search for new updates An error occurred while checking for new
Problem You have a Windows 2012 R2 server virtual machine with multiple disks that is formatted with the ReFS file system and you have just one of the disks at the hypervisor level then proceed
It has been a busy week for most of my clients after the media published articles indicating that major organizations such as the NHS were infected by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm. Although a patch for
One of the scripts I’ve used quite a lot over the past few years is the community driven vCheck PowerShell HTML framework script: http://www.virtu-al.net/vcheck-pluginsheaders/vcheck/ Most if not all of my clients have this script setup
One of the most common questions I’ve been asked by clients with Microsoft RDS deployments is how to hide the Library, Favorites and redirected local drives for RDS published RemoteApp applications. The reason for this
Problem You’ve created a new scheduled task in Task Scheduler to execute a batch file but notice that the task does not complete successfully and the Last Run Result is (0x1): Reviewing the History tab
