by Rocky Beaven | Dec 1, 2015 | Miscellaneous
If you need to know the service tag of a system whilst not physically in front of the machine (or the service tag label is missing!) you can do so via the command line: If you can RDP to the system, open a command prompt (admin not required) and then enter: wmic...
by Rocky Beaven | Dec 1, 2015 | Server 201x, Software, Windows 10/11, Windows 7/8
Remote desktop connections are not enabled by default in Windows 7 and later, and although I normally enable it when installing PCs, there has been the odd occasion where I find that I forgot just when I need it! There are four steps to complete to remotely enable...
by Rocky Beaven | Sep 18, 2015 | Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, PowerShell
If you need a list of all devices currently (or historically) connected to Exchange via ActiveSync, this PowerShell script will list the relevant info for you: Get-Mailbox | ForEach {Get-MobileDeviceStatistics -Mailbox:$_.Identity} | select-object Identity,...
by Rocky Beaven | Sep 18, 2015 | Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, PowerShell
Have been doing a number of cut-over migrations from on-premises Exchange server (SBS usually) to Office365, and it is very handy to have a list of all the defined SMTP addresses for each user, along with who has full access to which mailboxes etc, to ease the setup...
by Rocky Beaven | Aug 28, 2015 | Hyper-V
By default when you create a new VM in Hyper-V – and a create a virtual disk at the same time – it creates a dynamic disk (i.e. it expands to the specified size as required). This is not usually a recommended option for production environments, albeit the...
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