Author Archives: livestreak

PowerShell

Posted on May 21, 2016 by livestreak

Get Logged On User – From 4sysops.com Adam Bertram Found this at 4sysops.com, and have been using it for a while, take a look at Adam’s post for the full run down. function Get–LoggedOnUser {    [CmdletBinding()]    param    (        [Parameter()]        [ValidateScript({ Test–Connection … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4

Posted on November 20, 2015 by livestreak

Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4 is now available for download What’s New in Nano Server. Nano Server now supports the DNS Server and IIS server roles, as well as MPIO, VMM, SCOM, DSC push mode, DCB, Windows Server Installer, … Continue reading →

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Qdir

Posted on November 20, 2015 by livestreak

Just a quick plug for SoftwareOK.com – Nenad has some great software. Qdir is a great quad pane file explorer

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iPhone 6s – Defining new levels of Premiumness…

Posted on September 9, 2015 by livestreak

I can’t wait for the flood of previews/reviews covering how ‘Premium’ the next iPhone is… For those getting ready to craft up those previews/reviews, here are some other options when it comes to discussing the premiumness of the device: culminating, finest, first, … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Data Collection and Reporting

Posted on September 9, 2015 by livestreak

There has been a few posts about Windows 10 and it phoning home with data etc etc Having a quick look today there appears to be a setting in the Enterprise Edition Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Data Collection … Continue reading →

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Hyper-V Server Performance Tuning

Posted on August 20, 2015 by livestreak

From MSDN Performance Tuning for Hyper-V Servers Hyper-V is the virtualization server role in Windows Server 2012 R2. Virtualization servers can host multiple virtual machines that are isolated from each other but share the underlying hardware resources by virtualizing the processors, memory, … Continue reading →

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Certificate Manager – certmgr.msc and certlm.msc

Posted on July 17, 2015 by livestreak

certlm.msc – Local Machine Certificate MSC certmgr.msc – Local User Certificate MSC

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POSH / PowerShell and MSTSC

Posted on July 16, 2015 by livestreak

Tired of guessing if the server is up before you MSTSC in after a reboot, well Mikael Nystrom – The Deployment Bunny has a great PowerShell script which will test for RDP port 3389 using Test-NetConnection, and when its live will open … Continue reading →

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Forgot Windows Local Admin Password

Posted on July 15, 2015 by livestreak

Forgot your local admin password – just reset it… Boot from Windows Install Media Press Shift + F10 at the Language Settings to get a CMD Prompt Change to D:\windows\system32\ Type copy sethc.exe d:\ Type copy cmd.exe sethc.exe, and press Y … Continue reading →

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ThingSpeak and Office Temp

Posted on July 1, 2015 by livestreak

For the past few months I have had an Arduino reporting the temperature and humidity, seems to be working great. I am not 100% sure of the uptime, as its connected to an ADSL modem/router which other people in the … Continue reading →

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