This category contains Windows Server tutorials and guides covering installation, configuration, and troubleshooting across multiple versions including 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025. Designed for system administrators and IT professionals managing server environments.
If you want to use the IIS Management Console on a technician’s computer then you may run into the problem that a lot of people have – simply installing the IIS components and console on the technician’s machine will not work. This is because it will only connect to the localhost – you need to … Read more
If you are using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) then you will find that you will need to apply your correct licence key to take it from an evaluation version up to a full version. To make this a simple process, you can run the following PowerShell command on your Operations Manager server: #Import Module import-module … Read more
If you are installing System Center Operations Manager, there are a number of pre-requisites that you need to install before running the installer. To make the pre-requisites installation easier, you can run the below Powershell command which will download and install all of the pre-reqs for you. Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core,AS-HTTP-Activation,Web-Static-Content,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Filtering,Web-Stat-Compression,AS-Web-Support,Web-Metabase,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Windows-Auth –restart ##This section will … Read more
If you have been using System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP) to push out Adobe updates to your end users, then you may have recently noticed that the Flash Player catalog has stopped working. Well this is due to Adobe having moved where the cab file is for the catalog, but you can easily update the … Read more
So finally, Microsoft have released a new version of Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 (RSAT) this time including the DHCP Console. You can now get the updated package from Microsoft by downloading the installer using the button below: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 COMMENTS If you have any questions or feedback, … Read more
If you are using System Center Service Manager and creating custom management packs then you will want to seal them with a strong name signature. To do this, you will need to first of all generate the key file to allow you to use it when sealing your management pack. You need to use the … Read more
We were recently setting up a test lab with an old version of Exchange 2007 to replicate a customers environment and we had created the required 250 users in Active Directory using some scripts but we also had to then create the mailboxes for these accounts. Not wanting to sit there manually creating all these … Read more
To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and … Read more
If you want to export a users set of contacts from Exchange directly into a PST file using Powershell, then you can run this command using Exchange Management Shell (EMS): export-mailbox -id User1 -includefolders ‘contacts’ -pstfolderpath C:User1.pst Where: User1 = the mailbox that you want to export from C:User1.pst = the PST filename where you want … Read more
If you are using SCCM and you want to delete a device from your database (for example if you are using OSD and only deploying to Unknown Devices) then you would normally have to go into the SCCM Console, Devices, search for the device and then right click and delete the device which would remove … Read more
We have recently been using a new script that we came across which allows you to run a PowerShell script on your SCCM environment and it looks for all the Dell hardware models that you have and then automatically downloads all the latest drivers and BIOS’s for each machine found. This is an excellent way … Read more
If you are using SCCM for the deployment of software then you may find that with the smaller SSD’s that you may be using that free space is becoming an issue. This can be because the more an end user installs to their machine from your Software Catalog, the more data that is being downloaded … Read more