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I hate having to do this manually on Windows Server. It never works. Here is a script! cd $env:temp; powershell -c "Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://git.icanhazfiles.com/cmyron/enable-networkdiscovery/-/raw/main/Enable-NetworkDiscovery.ps1' -OutFile $env:temp'\Enable-NetworkDiscovery.ps1'"; powershell.exe -Executionpolicy unrestricted -command .\Enable-NetworkDiscovery.ps1; rm .\Enable-NetworkDiscovery.ps1

Removable devices Connect (Disconnect from host) is greyed out. Why? Don’t know. Its stupid. But, I do know how to fix it! Open your VMX file for the VM, find the line below, remove it, and start your VM. Magic! usb.restrictions.defaultAllow = "FALSE"

WiFi management from the CLI sucks. Here is your friend: WiFi PowerShell Modules. NOTE: They are a work in progress, they're far from perfect at the moment. Although they do function. New-Item -Path "C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\WiFi" -ItemType Directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null; cd "C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\

Yeah, that. Pretty awesome, usually does a good job of showing everything. cd $env:temp; powershell -c "Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://git.icanhazfiles.com/cmyron/show-installed-software/-/raw/main/Show_Installed_Software.ps1' -OutFile $env:temp'\Show_Installed_Software.ps1'"; powershell.exe -Executionpolicy unrestricted -command .\Show_Installed_Software.ps1; rm .\Show_

If you are anything like me, you'd rather solve a problem for someone without having to spend an hour on the phone. Well, enter CLI fixes for Office 365! CD to a directory (below) and run a command! cd 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\ClientX64' .\OfficeClickToRun.exe scenario=Repair

You just got a new job or new email, congrats! You sign into Outlook, think everything is peachy, but yet it still prompts you for that old account, right? Literally just remove the old email from your contact in Outlook. Seriously, it auto maps what's in your contact to Outlook.

Well since CLI SpeedTest from Ookla is a thing, but it kind of sucks, have this. Batch: cd %temp% && powershell -c "Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://git.icanhazfiles.com/cmyron/run-speedtest/-/raw/main/Run-SpeedTest.ps1?inline=false' -OutFile '.\Run-SpeedTest.ps1'" && powershell.exe -Executionpolicy unrestricted -command .\Run-SpeedTest.

I know, I know. Some of you will say "Why don't you just get RapidFire tools, they do all this stuff." Some of us aren't made of money. Get over it. cd $env:temp; Invoke-WebRequest https://git.icanhazfiles.com/cmyron/get-adinfo/-/raw/main/Get-ADInfo.ps1?inline=false -outfile Get-ADInfo.

Dump this into your magical little CMD (Top) or PowerShell (Bottom) window as admin, and you are off to the races. Enjoy, feel free to cry if something is wrong. Batch cd %temp% && powershell -c "Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://git.icanhazfiles.com/cmyron/computer-info-gatherer/-/raw/main/Computer_Info.

Apparently domain group policy has a thing that messes with the allowed users for logon. Many hours later, this one liner resets the logon and security settings in group policy to defaults. Once this is in place, magic. Everything works again. secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.

You know the thing. It usually manifests itself on AzureAD joined PCs. But, it keeps giving you that annoying prompt with the username but doesn't go away. Well boy howdy, here's a fix that made my day! HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange Add the DWORD AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover and set it

reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MEIx64\Parameters\ /v PG_DISABLED /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /fRun that, disable C States, magic. Power management stuff really sucks all the fun out of computing these days......

So you're running down a power saving issue, right? You need to really dig into those power options. Well, here is a thing. Files · main · Chandler Myron / Turn On All Advanced Power OptioinsGitLab Community EditionGitLabEnjoy. It turns on visibility for all the Advanced Power Options for you, saving that precious

So, your Dell laptop (or customer laptop, pick your poison) is dumping the network. Random apps (like Quickbooks, gross) are timing out, things just seem all around bad. Well, turns out its a "feature" not a bug! Selective Suspend, its a thing with USB devices. If you have a USB

So, you likely just have a single thing with the stuff. /dev/sda is likely your disk, assuming you have a single drive in this virtual machine you are growing and it was installed with the default partitioning. If it isn't this way, wing it with your own /dev/sd$

Can’t configure a convenience PIN - Windows ClientDescribes an issue that prevents users of Windows 10 Anniversary Update from setting a convenience PIN. This change involves Windows Hello for Business and the increased security this feature offers. A resolution is provided.Microsoft DocsDeland-HanMake sure the only registry values that

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Yeah. That. Just run this guy below for your collections and you can update them. Unless you feel like blowing out your collections and starting over. I guess that works too. Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName “$yourcollection” -CustomRdpProperty “gatewayhostname:s:remote.gateway.net:$portnumber”

So, yeah, QuickBooks (insert vomit emoji here). So, if you are enjoying a new deployment or migration or upgrade like I have been (yay me) you probably have run into this stupid. Its either just tribal knowledge at this point, or hanging around on your user's computers for so long

We all hate onboarding pains. Not knowing anything about the client, discovering the major whoopsies of someone else's problem child. One huge pain (especially lately with a DNS migration) has been all the stupid static IPs set all over the place on workstations that nobody knew about. Well, boy do

Yeah, do this thing. Pretty sick little command. Add a variable and add .$informationyouwanthere and you can pipe this to other commands too to do some really magical things. Invoke-RestMethod http://ipinfo.io/json

So, Get-Date gets the current date, right? And LasBootUpTime under Win32_OperatingSystem shows you the nice things, also right? Well, check this out. Subtract the two, magic. (Get-Date) – (gcim Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime

This is a thing. I wrote that thing. There's not much to this thing, it just does what you expect it to. Which, if you expect anything other than exporting the last 7 days of the system event log with only errors and warnings and such, then, uh, bananas. You

Yeah, I hate this one too. Where that network thing is blank, or battery, or you just open that tray and its empty? Anyways, yeah do this thing. Regedit. Win+R regedit, search, however you want to accomplish that partHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

So, all articles on this kind of really suck. So here, have this. Go grab ASDIEdit (from here, because hyperlink bro). Open up ADSIEdit.msc (whatever method you want, you maniac you. Likely just Win+R then things.)Click "Connect to" under ActionsDefaults, because defaults. Just click "Configuration" in the