General on System Management

Windows PowerShell vs PowerShell

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 19:46:17 +0200

There are few differences in the PowerShell language between Windows PowerShell and PowerShell. The differences are most notable in the availability and behavior of PowerShell cmdlets between Windows and non-Windows platforms and the changes that stem from the differences between the .NET Framework and .NET Core.

Repost: Welcome to the New Normal

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:09:04 +0200

I couldn’t resist of not sharing this. Excelent post from P3 regarding our friendship with Corona virus.

Power Query – Week start and end dates in same column

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 09:12:37 +0200

Someone asked me the other day below thing: “On the same column I want a Range of dates not Duration between two dates So I have a Creation date and fulfillment date I need to come up with a column of weekly Range like for example 10/21 – 10/27 10/28 – 11/01 11/02 – 11/09…

TRUE or FALSE?

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:11:58 +0200

ITIL 4 coming soon

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 20:58:38 +0200

A new version of ITIL will be released in early 2019.

How to get and view WordPress Statistics in Power BI

Fri, 11 May 2018 06:28:41 +0300

Soheil Bakhshi from http://biinsight.com has a super good article on how to get your stats from a WordPress site/blog and analyze them in Power BI. For lazy guys out there, he already built a Power BI template file that you can use straight away. The only thing you’ll need is WordPress API key but don’t…

Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:57:47 +0300

Error: “Expressions that yield variant data-type cannot be used to define calculated columns.“ Cause: IF based Calculated Columns in Power BI or Power Pivot with 2 different data types is not allowed. Solution: Format one data type as needed using FORMAT() function. [code language=”sql”] Age = IF ( TableName[Birthday] < TODAY(), FORMAT ( Year (…

HTML vs XHTML

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 20:29:06 +0300

Ever wondered what HTML and XHTML is about? Long and official story can be found at W3Schools. Short story, below. Simply put, XHTML is the same as HTML but stricter. There are rules in place that one must follow. You are no longer allowed to leave tags unclosed or place them wherever you want. And…

Ok, e-books

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:22:22 +0300

Let’s start with some bullshit talk to tell you how this topic started. Feel free to skip it if you’re not curious. Personally, I’m not the kind of person who reads books not related to IT; think I can count all books I read throughout my lifetime and there are no more than 10, but…

Getting back online

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 01:35:57 +0300

After many years, giving this blog a rebirth. I lost my backup files and only found very few posts and those mainly about ConfigMgr 2012. Will post them below anyway; better few than nothing. Next planned articles will be about e-books and plain html maybe, we shall see Stay tuned! Also need to create/update “About”…

I’ve been at Tech-Ed today…

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:01:43 +0200

Actually I just attended a local event organized by Microsoft Romania and the last session was Useful Hacker Techniques: Which Part of Hackers’ Knowledge Will Help You in Efficient IT Administration held by polish Enterprise Security MVP – Paula Januszkiewicz. Geez… this girl presented some things that, I can bet, made half of all admins…

Add TCP/IP printer – Access Denied

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:04:34 +0200

Yesterday I was trying to install a network printer on Windows Server 2008 system. After typing printer’s IP address, I received an “Access denied” error. The problem was that I tried to install the printer while I was logged on with a user that had domain admin privileges, but not the default domain Administrator account.…

Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name error

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:47:39 +0200

Today a client called me and said that his second domain controller, which is on Hyper-V, is having connectivity problems. For example, running the ping command from DC2 results in very bad response times or timed out requests. Searching the event viewer, I saw many errors with Event ID 1054: “Description: Windows cannot obtain the…

WMI query for processor manufacturer

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:56:08 +0200

Following the post regarding how to install drivers based on computer model using WMI query, here is another query you can use in your task sequences to install some processor specific software for example. To find the processor manufacturer during a task sequence, insert a condition for the step you need, and select Query WMI.…

Remote Server Admin Tools for Windows 7

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:49:54 +0300

Some time ago I used Admin Tools and RSAT for Vista and it saved my time from using remote desktop to log on to several servers. Now it is available (RTM, not RC or something…) for Windows 7 x86/x64. Using RSAT for Win7, you can manage the following roles and features from Windows Server 2008…

TechEd Online Bloggers

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:47:08 +0200

My last post (Using Group Policy to deploy Office 2007) was quoted on TechEdBloggers site.

Group Policy – User Configuration Logon script

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:20:35 +0200

Something I have learned the other day… I had to install a small .msi using Group Policy, using a logon script. As it was a small package and not very important, I used a User Configuration Logon script.I created and linked a new GPO to a specific OU with some users (with no admin privileges)…

009 error codes

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:30:05 +0200

During “troubleshooting period”, I have found a very nice website with error codes’ descriptions. Now, every time I get an error in any program, I check the list from this blog http://blogs.msdn.com/joshpoley/pages/errors-009-facility-sspi.aspx. This is how the table with error codes looks like: Code HRESULT Description #define 1 0xC0090001 The specified event is currently not being…