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Found a great script to run in audit mode when you install Windows 10 to decrapify the installation, by removing most modern apps (appx) and disable telemetry and tighten privacy. There is a group over at SpiceWorks for the script discussion and download: https://community.spiceworks.com/user-groups/windows-decrapifier-group Here is the link to the page that has all the links in one handy page:  https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2148595-links

Clean installed Windows 10 1803 Enterprise: C:\>powercfg /l Existing Power Schemes (* Active) ----------------------------------- Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced) * Enable Performance and Ultimate Performance power plan: powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 Output example: C:\>powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c Power Scheme GUID: 5dc5b218-8720-4951-b027-1122a94f8ff8  (High performance) C:\>powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 Power Scheme GUID: 02a5d966-c934-4447-a62f-7de757a4240d  (Ultimate Performance) C:\>powercfg /l Existing Power Schemes (* Active) ----------------------------------- Power Scheme GUID: 02a5d966-c934-4447-a62f-7de757a4240d  (Ultimate Performance) Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced) * Power Scheme GUID: 5dc5b2...

This blog post explains how to use the vROps APIs with Postman (API development environment) to create custom email templates for vROps.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\UX\Settings DWORD FlightSettingsMaxPauseDays

After I reinstalled my computer a while back, I noticed that one characters (the @-sign) had a long delay before showing up after I had hit the key on the keyboard. And I noticed it wasn't every time I had turned on my computer it was "slow". Imagine how frustrating it is to write your email address in a normal pace on the keyboard, just to find it spelled firstname1977gma@il.com instead of firstname1977@gmail.com ? Hitting ' @ 'had 0.5 to 1 second delay before it showed up on my screen, while the characters after displayed instantly. The computer in question runs english Windows 10 x64 with an NVidia GTX1070 card from Asus, and using a norwegian/scandinavian keyboard (Logitech G710+, but model isn't the problem). Throubleshooting led me to narrow the problem down to my ASUS GPU TweakII v1.4.0.8 (older version probably have the same problems). When I started the program, which was set to auto-start, I was suddenly no able to type @ as fast and often as ...

This is my setup for the weekly calendar using Jorte Calendar for Android. Just so I don't have to guess every time I install it on different devices :) Widget Type:        Weekly Periode of display: This week First Day Settings: Today Style:              Jorte White (sometimes Black) Background Image:   Show Transparancy of the background: 50% Keep the rest at defaults

My computer is still more than fast enough even though it's over 4 years old. It's a Intel Core i7-3770K with 32GB DDR4-1600 RAM on an Asus ROG Maximus V Gene mainboard. The chipset is Z77 and so it was more or less the best to get at the time being. I started with two Samsung SSD 830 in RAID-9 and later upgraded to a OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 PCIe SSD for my OS disk. Fast forward from Windows 7/8 to Windows 10 (v1607) and Intel seems to not have released any Windows 10 supported SATA controller drivers for Z77. Or have they? It seems that as long as your BIOS has the Intel SATA controller set to AHCI-mode, Windows 10 will install and use the generic ' Standard SATA controller ' and trying to install the latest iRST driver v15.2.0.1020 (latest version as of 2016-12-15) on an AHCI configured Z77-system only gives you an error: Platform not supported The good news is that Intel does have driver support for some of the older chipsets; those that have RAID capabilities, whi...

It seems such a long time ago I battled with Sophos XG firewall (v15.x) to get Crashplan Central (Cloud Backup) to work through it (#1). Last month I upgraded to v16.x and hey, what do you know? A new problem with connection to Crashplan Central. To make a long story short (read the forum posts), there's a bug (what else is new when it comes to Crashplan and XG) in v16 (including v16.0.1.1) that blocks the crashplan traffic. It's confirmed by Sophos KB (#2) and they say: In certain situations traffic being passed through the XG firewall may appear be passed through the proxy even when no Web Policy is enabled within the relevant firewall rule and HTTP/HTTPS scanning is disabled." Both the KB and forumpost (#3) gives a workaround: Connect to the XG firewall via SSH and select option 4 (Device Console) from the menu run the below to disable this: system application_classification microapp-discovery off Restart Crashplan Links: https://community.sophos.com/...

So Google just killed the BACKSPACE key for navigating back on webpages. That sucks! I guess I'm one of the few 0.04% users who use it a lot.. Luckily it seems the made an extension to re-add the feature to Chrome. Get it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/go-back-with-backspace/eekailopagacbcdloonjhbiecobagjci Source (pic and extension): https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/D4VMOXTxPwg

Short summary: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench CTRL+SHIFT+J (Chrome) Paste into Console and hit Enter: Select Windows 10 (1511 TH2) or another version Select Language (English International = UK/GB) Download 32- or 64-bit For better instructions (or using another browser) see TechJourney article here: https://techjourney.net/windows-7-8-1-10-iso-official-direct-download-links-from-microsoft-tech-bench/

I found this blogpost about MDT 2013 and handling drivers.. I might have to check it out later in a lab environment. In MDT 2013 (Lite Touch), there are two types of drivers to worry about when deploying Windows. There are drivers for Windows PE 5.0 (the boot image) and there are drivers for the Windows Operating System that you deploy.   Driver management for the boot image is pretty straight , but driver management for the Operating Systems that you deploy is more complex. The real answer is it depends… To simplify I have broken down drivers for the Windows Operating system in to three core scenarios (see later in this post). But first, let’s start with the boot image drivers. Link: http://deploymentresearch.com/Research/Post/325/MDT-2013-Lite-Touch-Driver-Management

This is a interesting and describing forum post about Lenovo putting some Lenovo CrapWare in the UEFI BIOS which Windows will execute upon login (right before actually): http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29497693&sid=ddf3e32512932172454de515091db014 Lenovo has issued a fix: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/lse_bios_notebook and an article: http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2013

This post was originally stored as a draft I never finished on how to update Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 Update 1 with the least amount of downloads (and time). Before I got around to publish it, Windows 10 was released. So now it will take you all the way from Windows 8 through Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. As many of you know, Microsoft has released Windows 10 as a free upgrade if you have a legal Windows 7 or 8.x installation, as long as you upgrade during the first year (so by 29th of July 2016). To upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 10 you have to first upgrade to Windows 8.1. So lets get cracking. I assume you have a clean new Windows 8 ("Home" or Pro) installed. Shortest path to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 First, activate Windows 8. Then configure Windows Update to "Let me decide which updates to download and install" Check for Windows 8 updates. Windows will want to update the Windows Update Component itself. Update it. Install the only update you n...

This might work in previous versions of Windows, but I've only tried it in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. I've got a MFP (multi-function printer) from Dell that I use to scan directly to a shared folder on my computer. For this I use a seperate user that has share/write permissions on a shared folder. I don't want to show this user in the Windows 10 list, so here is how to hide it: Start regedit and navigate here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Create a new sub-KEY under Winlogon named ' SpecialAccounts ' Create a new sub-KEY under SpecialAccounts named ' UserList ' In UserList, create a DWORD (32-bit) and give it the name of the user account. Leave the value at 0. Log out or Reboot Update: Verified to work in Windows 10.

Ever since I experienced many of the problems of enabling (installing) .NET Framework 3.5 feature via Windows Update on Windows 8.x days or even weeks or month after my initial Windows installation I'v I've been quick to make that the first thing I install on a new clean Windows 8.x installation. In my experience you will still "always" need .NET 2.0 or 3.5 (.NET Framework 3.5 feature set in Windows 8.x includes 3.0 and 2.0 also), so now I always install it righ away. Most of the solutions on the internet tells you to grab the DVD/Mount ISO and point the ' dism.exe ' to the SXS folder and enable it with the source files there. For a lot of us, those files aren't available when you need it, or not at all. I just had this problem hit me again, as I just started a new consultancy assignment and got a new laptop from the work place I had to use. It came already installed with Windows 8.1 (over the network) and with all software and updates. Hence, enabli...

Christophe Calvet aka The Crazy Consultant (blog) ( link ) has written some crazy woop ass 407 cmdlets (as of writing) and is sharing it with us at his blog - http://thecrazyconsultant.com/get-esxcli_on_steroids/ I would also recommend reading the  Howto use ESXCLI in PowerCLI by Florian Grehl ( www.virten.net )

I was just surfing about and was reading about PernixData releaseing FVP v2.5 in a blog , and my attention was directed to a great 6-part article about Server memory architecture, UMA, NUMA, memory subsystems, DDR4 and how to optimize memory for performance by Frank Denneman - you'll find it here:  http://frankdenneman.nl/2015/02/18/memory-configuration-scalability-blog-series/

Start these with  run  (from start menu) or run it from a command prompt. Admin Applet Command AD Domains and Trusts domain.msc Active Directory Management admgmt.msc AD Sites and Services dssite.msc AD Users and Computers dsa.msc ADSI Edit adsiedit.msc Authorization manager azman.msc Certification Authority Management certsrv.msc Certificate Templates certtmpl.msc Cluster Administrator cluadmin.exe Computer Management compmgmt.msc Component Services comexp.msc Configure Your Server cys.exe Device Manager devmgmt.msc DHCP Management dhcpmgmt.msc Disk Defragmenter dfrg.msc Disk Manager diskmgmt.msc Distributed File System dfsgui.msc DNS Management dnsmgmt.msc Event Viewer eventvwr.msc Indexing Service Management ciadv.msc IP Address Ma...

Just found a great blogpage that keeps an overview over SQL version, updates, builds etc. Check it out here: http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.no/ Short cuts for some useful articles, as this blogpage lists: How to identify your SQL Server version and edition SQL Server Internal Database Versions Microsoft SQL Server Support Lifecycle Microsoft SQL Server Home Microsoft SQL Server Developer Center Microsoft TechNet: Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Knowledge Base Sqlservr.exe versions

I just came over this page  that has good info about windows (vista/7/8/2008/2012/..) boot record problem solving.