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HOWTO: Move EFI System Partition so you can increase space on System Drive

You’ve likely found this page because you have a Windows virtual machine that has low space on the C: drive. You added more space to the VM using your hypervisor administration tool but when you log into the VM to try and extend the C: drive, you find yourself confronted with the problem below: The …

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Explain “You do not have permission” error as a Domain Admin

I recently had a customer express frustration they could no longer manage file permissions on their Windows Server with a newly created domain admin account. They would receive a “You do not have permission to access” error when trying to open folders in Windows Explorer when they were confirmed to have full permissions to those …

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Every Billboard Hot 100 #1 from 1958 to 2020

This is a weird one. A thought popped in my head this evening I couldn’t shake. What would a music critic from the first year the Billboard Hot 100 launched think of the progression of pop music since? We live in the age where all the information you could want is at your finger tips …

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Celebrate International Women’s Day with 24 Radio Hours of Music by Women

I heard tonight that a local radio station will celebrate International Women’s Day by playing songs exclusively by women for 24 straight hours.  This got me thinking — could I fill an entire day’s worth of music sung only by women and do so using only songs that I actually know and like? I realized …

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HOWTO: Force (really) WSUS Clients to Check in on Demand

You're most likely here because you are an IT administrator and you have a network that deploys Windows Updates via Windows Server Update Services or WSUS.  Perhaps you're relatively new to WSUS or you're a veteran that has been using the product since its inception.  In either case, you are mostly frustrated because even in …

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HOWTO: Run Process Monitor on a Remote Machine from the Command Line

I have a treat for you today.  I have finally solved something that has been a pain in my side for years now.  Have you ever been in the following situation? You are reviewing log files and discover that a remote computer (perhaps a virtual machine running on shared storage) is running wild and hammering …

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HOWTO: Get Webroot Endpoints using Unity REST API and PowerShell

Webroot has recently released a new REST API that allows us as administrators to pull detailed endpoint data programmatically. What this effectively means is that all of the information that is presented to us in the Webroot Global Site Manager can now be extracted directly and integrated into other processes. I very much wanted a …

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Adele would be amazing at Karaoke

I was browsing the news today and learned that Adele recently performed on Saturday Night Live.  It’s clear by this point that she is a very capable singer. But for a major television performance, I always just cynically assume that the artist is seldom actually singing.  I often expect them to be either dubbed based …

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Blackberry 10.3.2 Feature Requests Poll

I am a big fan of the traditional Blackberry philosophy of building hardware and software that can get work done quickly in as few steps as possible. With the release of OS10, Blackberry effectively had to build a new OS from scratch.  This is a ton of work and as a result, many of the refinements that were …

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HOWTO: Quick Lookups for Active Directory User Details

I’ve recently started a new job at a large company with thousands of employees and so I have a constant need for looking up who people are, what their user name is, who their manager is, what city they are in, etc? In many cases, I have to look up entire batches of people. Initially …

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