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Remove Copilot Icon from Excel

May 11, 2026May 9, 2026 by Robbie

Did you recently launch Excel only to find yet another Copilot icon shoved into your face? This time it’s a permanent icon in the lower right of every worksheet. There is no option to disable, hide or remove it. Googling suggests there is supposed to be a copilot setting in Excel under File / Options … Read more

Import Hyper-V VM from another Server with a different filepath

May 11, 2026March 21, 2026 by Robbie

Consider the following scenario where you have two physical sites, production and failover. Each site includes a HyperV host and a SAN. The production environment is a HyperV Failover Cluster while the Failover site consists of a standalone HyperV host. The SAN volumes are replicated from production to the failover site as shown in the … Read more

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

May 11, 2026July 29, 2023 by Robbie

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:

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

May 11, 2026May 1, 2022 by Robbie

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 … Read more

HOWTO: Calculate Elapsed Business Hours Using PowerShell

May 11, 2026December 21, 2018 by Robbie

Update: 4/11/2022: An individual by the name of Adam Cook has taken the premise of this script and transformed it into a far more robust PowerShell module and published it on Github. I wanted to ensure I gave his project all the visibility I could. The Github page is available here: https://github.com/codaamok/PSBusinessTime Thanks Adam! Have … Read more

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

May 11, 2026November 25, 2018 by Robbie

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 … Read more

HOWTO: Determine what wmiprvse.exe is actually doing (aka Troubleshoot WMI)

May 11, 2026February 15, 2016 by Robbie

This HOWTO came about after watching the excellent video series on using Process Explorer available here: Case of the Unexplained: Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich In this video, he talks about a case where wmiprvse.exe was causing Bluray video playback to stutter. If you have worked in IT for any length of time, you’ve probably seen … Read more