It is very common that sometimes we disabled the network adapter from VM to trouble shoot some network related issue, and after doing so we suddenly realize that we made a big mistake, especially if we do it on Azure VMs. Suddenly we lost all the communication to the VM, no RDP, no PowerShell, and VM got completely isolated from
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New Feature : EC2 Instance Console Screenshot for Boot Troubleshooting
Finally a great feature add to AWS EC2 instances (HVM virtualization only), which was requested by almost everyone. Now we can take a console screenshot of any EC2 Instances. This is now available publicly. Earlier we had to log a case with AWS Support to get the AWS Console screenshot. This is a similar feature like Boot Diagnostics for Azure
Task Scheduler Error “A specified logon session does not exist” – Fix via Command Line and PowerShell for Scripting
This is very know issue, if you search internet, you will get multiple blog post with same solution for this issue, and if you follow the steps, it actually resolve this issue. In simple word, solution of this problem is Logon to the faulty system. Open SECPOL.MSC from Run Go to Security Settings | Local Policies | Security Options Open
How to boot Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview with GUI (Server with Desktop Experience) from VHD
The reason behind writing this article is to use my Laptop (having Intel i3 4th Gen and 8 GB of RAM) as my LAB for testing new Windows Server 2016 TP4 and to do that I have to use boot from VHD option. There are multiple ways to boot your system from VHD but I don’t find a simple and
Set File System Auditing via PowerShell
For last few days, I was trying to figure out how to set file system auditing via command line. I was looking for this as I had to apply some specific audit policy on multiple file servers. From GUI, we could do this, but it will take hours of manual activity. As requirement, I had to set Success Audit policy
How to configure Home Folder with extra security
If you are having a domain controller, and decided to give a personal drive for all users, then home folder configuration is the best way to do it. But if you want to make it secure for every users, then you have to configure something extra with ntfs security and share security. Our current requirement as follows: Deploy home folder