Contents tagged with windows
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Resetting your password via the command line
If, like me, you're working remotely at the moment you might be spending a non-trivial amount of time using Remote Desktop to hop on and off various machines. It might be that, also like me, you …
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Why my Pi-hole was logging tens of thousands of queries against my default gateway for domain SRV records
If you're running Pi-hole (which you should if you can, it's awesome - you can even run it on a virtual machine) and also happen to be running it in an Active Directory environment, there are …
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How to force Windows 10 / Server 201x to scan for updates
One of the irritations of Windows 10 and its accompanying server editions is that there's no user interface surfaced to re-scan for available updates. The ability to do this comes in handy if, say, …
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Refreshing the Windows icon cache
I just updated to the latest and greatest version of Visual Studio Code, but alas my taskbar was still showing the old icon:
From this GitHub comment, here's a quick way to force the shell to …
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Getting Opserver (the awesome monitoring solution from Stack Exchange) to monitor DMZ servers
I've written about how awesome Opserver is before, but one thing I hadn't had time or opportunity for was getting the dashboard (which operates via WMI) working for servers that are sat in our DMZ. …
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Facial Recognition using the UWP APIs in Windows 10 via Windows Forms on .NET Core 3.0
NOTE: The full code for the app built in this post is available on GitHub: https://github.com/robertwray/FacesOfUWP
In a recent post I talked about using the Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts NuGet …
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Scheduled Task that runs a PowerShell script returning 0x80070001
I've recently migrated several scheduled tasks from one machine to another as part of a rationalisation process. A couple of these tasks were ones that can only be run at a certain time, so were …
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Using the PSWindowsUpdate module to interrogate Windows Update
I've been looking at automating the patching of some servers that aren't domain joined, and one of the tools that I've spotted that may come in handy is the PSWindowsUpdate module. Once it's …
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Setting up OpServer, the awesome monitoring solution from Stack Exchange
Monitoring. You know it's important, I know it's important, Everyone knows it's important, but,... it's often not given the focus that it so justly deserves.
If you're in a position where you don' …
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When's my domain password due to change?
If I'm due to take annual leave (as I did last week) I like to check that my password isn't going to expire whilst I'm out of the office and change it a couple of days before I go on leave, just …