Quite often, VMWare administrators are faced with the fact that the list of virtual machines contains VMs with the Invalid (Unknown) status. As a rule, the issue occurs after deleting a virtual machine, which data remained in the VMWare vSphere/ESXi configuration on some reason. This can also happen after you manually remove VM files from the VMFS storage after running vMotion and in some other cases. You won’t be able to delete such a VM from vSphere Web Client using the built-in tools (the Unregister option in the Actions menu is inactive).
A mandatory user profile is a special pre-configured type of roaming user profile than can be changed only by administrators. Users who have been assigned a mandatory profile can work…
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Downloading (Transferring) Large Files Using PowerShell and BITS
April 10, 2024If you need to download (transfer) a large file to a remote computer without overloading the network channel, we recommend using the BITS protocol. BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer service) is…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2019
Fix: Clock Reverts to Wrong Time After Computer (Server) Reboot
March 12, 2024In this article, we’ll consider why the system clock displays incorrect time and date after a shutdown, restart or resuming from hibernation of a laptop/computer/server. Time is reset each time…
Today we’ll talk about opportunities for managing printers and their drivers from the command prompt in Windows 10/ 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2/ 2016. We will consider how to…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2019
How to Enable Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) on Windows Server
March 11, 2024Access-based Enumeration (ABE) allows to hide objects (files and folders) from users who don’t have NTFS permissions (Read or List) on a network shared folder in order to access them.…
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How To Monitor Group Membership Changes in Active Directory
March 15, 2024It can be difficult to track exactly who made certain changes when the Active Directory domain infrastructure is managed by multiple administrators (added or removed a user from a security…
- Windows 10
Error 0x80073CFA: Can’t Uninstall Apps using Remove-AppxPackage in Windows 10
March 11, 2024Starting from Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update), several new built-in universal apps appeared in the system and you cannot remove them using the standard procedure. For example, when you try…
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How to Get My Public IP Address with PowerShell
October 24, 2023You can use a simple PowerShell command to find out the current public IP address that your Windows computer uses to access the Internet. There are a large number of…
- PowerShellWindows Server 2019Windows Server 2022
How to See Number of Active User Sessions on IIS WebSite
March 16, 2024How to quickly estimate the current number of user connections (sessions) to the IIS sites on webserver running on Windows Server? Such information will allow to determine and predict the…