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Remove Forefront Client Security by force

Posted on 2015/08/05 by rcmtech

I was recently trying to upgrade the Antivirus software on some servers from Forefront Client Security to System Center Endpoint Protection 2012 R2. On most servers it worked fine. However on a few I was unable to remove some of … Continue reading →

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Find the DLL used by an Internet Explorer Add-on

Posted on 2015/01/26 by rcmtech

Found this by accident, but it’s surprisingly easy. I’m using the latest IE, version 11. Click the IE settings cog, and then click Manage add-ons from the menu. In the Manage Add-ons dialogue box, highlight the add-on you want to … Continue reading →

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Add and remove VMware NFS datastores via PowerCLI

Posted on 2014/04/16 by rcmtech

Been experimenting with these recently, and they have to be added to or removed from each host individually, which is tedious via the GUI. Easy via PowerShell/PowerCLI though. Add: $hosts = Get-VMHost -Location “RCM” foreach($VMHost in $hosts){ Write-Host $VMHost.Name New-Datastore -VMHost … Continue reading →

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Powershell function to pin and unpin from Windows Taskbar

Posted on 2014/03/12 by rcmtech

Wrote this to make it easy to add and remove pinned items from the taskbar. Code function Pin-Taskbar([string]$Item = “”,[string]$Action = “”){ if($Item -eq “”){ Write-Error -Message “You need to specify an item” -ErrorAction Stop } if($Action -eq “”){ Write-Error … Continue reading →

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Get and delete DNS A and PTR records via PowerShell

Posted on 2014/02/26 by rcmtech

My Remote Desktop Session Host build process is now pretty slick. I can easily rebuild a lot of RDSH VMs very quickly. The process basically involved powering off the existing VM, deleting both it and its Active Directory account, and … Continue reading →

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Tidy/Remove VMware Snapshots – possibly created by NetBackup

Posted on 2012/02/16 by rcmtech

Diagnosis I’ve found that sometimes Symatec NetBackup v7.0/7.1 doesn’t remove the snapshots it takes of VMs whilst it’s backing them up direct from the SAN. These snapshots don’t show in the vSphere Client GUI: However, viewing the VM disk configuration … Continue reading →

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