by Rocky Beaven | Feb 16, 2018 | Miscellaneous, PowerShell
If you find a domain account has been locked, you can unlock it via the command line (running as administrator). First, check the status by running the command below – replacing loginname with the username of course!:net user loginname /DOMAIN If the...
by Rocky Beaven | Oct 21, 2016 | Miscellaneous, Server 201x, Windows 10/11, Windows 7/8
For certain apps, and firewall exceptions, you may need to change the network type that your server OS thinks you are connected to, e.g. from Public to Private. In Server Manager | Local Servers | Tools | Local Security Policy | Network List Manager Policies –...
by Rocky Beaven | Oct 21, 2016 | Windows 7/8
Recently I’ve had several instances where a (sometimes relatively new) Windows 7 PC has run out of disk space, and found that C:\Windows\TEMP has numerous files with names following the pattern “cab_XXXX_X” (usually around 100MB each), and these...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 7, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Had a couple of recent cases of not being able to open the Control Panel Mail applet (either from Control Panel directly, or via command line etc). The general consensus seems to be that a recent MS update (quelle surprise!) has broken it. In addition to the suggested...
by Rocky Beaven | Feb 24, 2016 | Hyper-V, Server 201x
Just had an instance where a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V guest shut down unexpectedly, and was then on a blue screen of death reboot loop on restart. (The fact it was a guest VM is pretty irrelevant, the following instructions will work for a physical server, or indeed a...
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