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Make TSADMIN.MSC work in Windows 8.1
So if you are an admin and have migrated your administrator workstation over to Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 lately, you may run into a frustration if you are used to managing your Remote Desktop Services from your administrative workstation…
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Makewinpemedia Diskpart Format ErrorLevel -2147212243
In working with Windows 8.1 WADK in a client environment recently, the need arose to create a USB key to boot from for PE environment on a workstation. There is a new command in the WADK Deployment and Imaging Tools environment…
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Install .Net Framework in Windows 8 or 8.1 offline without Internet
You may have encountered an issue with installing .NET framework feature in Windows 8 or 8.1 where the installer simply fails with the error 0x800f0906 which alludes to a problem with an Internet connection however it could be WSUS related as well…
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Windows Server Backup not running backup job
Windows Server backup is a great out of the box utility in Windows Server 2008 R2 and higher versions for performing good backups if you don’t have the budget for a more advanced and feature rich backup utility for your…
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Why is Hard Drive space steadily decreasing
If you have had an issue with hard drive space steadily decreasing and many of you have, the issue may not be files at all. In fact, in many cases it could be Windows itself! This goes for server environments…
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How to login locally if you don’t know computer name
You may have run into a situation where you need to login locally to a workstation that may be joined to a domain. The last person that logged into the workstation used the domain credentials so by default, the workstation…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation Screenshots Step by Step
Microsoft recently released the Preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 for download and install. We got our hands on the install ISO and decided to spin this up in a VM. Microsoft has greatly improved things in the R2…
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Easy ways to get to Windows Task Manager
Let’s face it, from time to time, we just need to get to task manager and kill an application or get a quick look at system resources. There are many different ways to get to Task manager in Windows. We…
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How to find your DNS settings on your computer
Basic Internet troubleshooting often requires troubleshooting DNS settings on a computer. DNS provides the means for all the user friendly URLS we use to surf the Internet are properly translated into the IP addresses the computers and servers understand in…
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Configure additional bindings in IIS 7.5 so websites answer to different names
One of the main purposes of the “Bindings” setting for a website’s properties is so the webserver knows which website to serve out when a request comes across on port 80. After all if a server is literally serving out…
