I have a batch job scheduled to run every night that could take several hours to finish. It’s just a simple data copy job with a set of robocopy commands but I have no way of knowing how it went during the night. It would be nice if the job can notify me the status of the job in an […]
Since Windows Server 2016 Insider Build is free with full licenses, why not using it? But it’s only available in Server Core, which means I will have to use PowerShell to do all the work. I am setting up one that is the first server in a test environment and I need it to be the AD server as well […]
I am setting up a Hyper-V host on a Windows Server Core 2016 to host a bunch of testing VMs that need to be totally separated from the main network. That’s why I need the Route and Remote Access service enabled on server core to act as a NAT to provide Internet access to all these VMs. Install the Remote […]
It’s not as easy as I thought, as there are quite a few pieces that need to be taken care of before you can happily manage Hyper-V host remotely from any computer, even one outside a managed domain. If you want to set up to manage your office Hyper-V host from your home computer that’s not part of your office […]
PowerShell Remoting really makes my work a lot easier but it requires quite a bit of work to get all the remote computers ready to take the remoting calls, such as automatically start Windows Remote Management services, set up the HTTP listener for incoming WinRM requests, as well as open Firewall Port to allow the traffic to go through. For […]
When there are too many login attempts occurred, the account used to attempt will get locked out. By default, after 5 bad password attempts the domain account will be locked out by the Active Directory server. To get to the bottom of why the account is being locked out, here are a few tips and tricks you can try. Which domain […]
I’ve been wasting time on this free AI-powered game called Paperclip for a few days now. Got to the end a couple of times and extremely satisfied when seeing the numbers quickly pilling up. But what’s really blown my mind was how large the number grows. It quickly passes thousand, million, billion, trillion, fast forward to a point where the names […]
What to do when the volume that host WSUS content folder gets out of storage? The easiest way is to move the content folder to a new location, whether it’s a new storage volume on the same server or a shared folder on another different server. And the tool WsusUtil.exe that comes with WSUS has this feature built right in. Open […]