If you’re looking to use VMware NSX’s Guest Introspection feature, you’re going to need theGuest Introspection Thin Agent component installed with VMware Tools. This feature is...
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- August 25, 2016
- VMware
August 2016
Excel: Check email addresses in bulk if format is correct or not
So had a request today to clean up email addresses as some of them were not valid. This was needed for over 1500 email addresses. So...
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- August 25, 2016
- Windows
Bulk add or replace DNS entries in a zone
There are occasions where we need to do bulk DNS record management such as create and update a large series of records for IP network changes...
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- August 22, 2016
- Windows
Find Out Dns Server Addresses
The resolver is a set of routines in the C library that provide access to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). The resolver configuration file contains...
Continue reading...DFS Namespace service could not initialize cross forest trust information
After you install Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 R2, you may start seeing the following error message after the server boots: The DFS Namespace service...
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- August 11, 2016
- Windows
Uninstall DNS role on a Windows Core Server 2012 R2 / 2008 R2
So I ran into an interesting issue where I needed to remove a DNS role from a Core Windows box. After googling for serveral minutes, I...
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- August 11, 2016
- Windows
DNS broken after Windows Update KB3145126
I noticed the DNS broke on my servers after Windows Update. The problem was KB3145126. Read more about it here. After a quick removal and reboot,...
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- August 11, 2016
- Windows
Check Proxy settings from Powershell
To check the proxy settings like ProxyOveride or if it is enabled or not:
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Get-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" |
To disable proxy from PowerShell:
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Set-ItemProperty -Path "Registry::HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings" ProxyEnable -value 0 |
To enable proxy from PowerShell:...
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- August 10, 2016
- Windows
IE Enable/Disable Proxy Settings via Registry
Whatever the reason may be to enable or disable proxy, here is a simple registry hack to turn it on or off. Open powershell in admin...
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- August 10, 2016
- Windows
Find your SID
Open Command Prompt. Once Command Prompt is open, type the following command exactly as shown here, including spaces or lack thereof:
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<strong>wmic useraccount get name,sid</strong> |
and then press...
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- August 10, 2016
- Windows