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In Windows 2012 it’s possible to add a source path to the Add-WindowsFeature and Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet. This may be necessary when the source files needed to install a feature are not locally cached on your server. In the example below, I tried to install NET-Non-HTTP-Activ, required for my SQL/SCCM installation
PS C:\Users\Administrator> Install-windowsfeature NET-Non-HTTP-Activ
Install-windowsfeature : The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed.
If you have installed Internet Explorer 9, and you use Exchange 2010 SP1, you may face the problem that you cannot close the Exchange Management Console (MMC). The error you get is as follows:
“You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange management console”
This error only occurs in the specific combination of IE9 and the Exchange 2010 SP1 management console.… Read the rest
A colleague recently asked me a list of all employees in our company, and their date of hire. As I work at an IT department, I do not have everyones contract. However, I do have the creation date of every account.… Read the rest
A new version of ESX often comes with a new version of VMWare Tools. In my case, I did a migration of ESX 3.5 to vSphere (4.0). A manual installation of VMWare Tools would be pretty time-wasting (50 virtual machines). Therefore, I’ve searched on Google, and found the following solution: Powershell!… Read the rest