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Cluster / Hyper-V / Microsoft / Storage / System Center / Uncategorized / Virtualisation

Hyper-V BIN file removal and reclaiming storage space

Background on Files in Hyper-V .XML Contains the VM configuration. .VHD and .VHDX: The virtual disks that hold the current virtual disk data, including partitions and file systems. .BIN Contains …

Collaboration / Office / Office365 / SharePoint Online

SharePoint file locked for edit

I saw this in Word live collaboration only last week but it also occurs in Excel. It appears to happen when saving the file and the users Upload Center is …

Microsoft / Performance / Server Manager / Systems Management

Reducing Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Manager CPU usage

In large environments where you use Server Manager, by default it polls the servers you’ve added quite frequently. Increasing this data refresh interval and reducing the Event Log time frame …

Automation / Microsoft / Powershell / Script / Windows Server 2012 R2

Remotely expanding partitions after expanding them in the hypervisor

Once you have expanded an underlying disk in a virtual machine, you still need to expand the disk in the guest. If, like me, you see logging on to a …

Script / Security / SSL / Synology

Manually renewing a Let’s Encrypt (LE) Certificate on a Synology NAS

When your Synology won’t (or more likely can’t because you blocked port 80 after getting the first time) automatically renew its Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate you can manually trigger the …

Microsoft / Powershell / Script / SQL Server

Test if a SQL table exists with PowerShell

Use Case Occasionally when managing large numbers of SQL Instances and thousands of databases, you have to do some checks prior to running a query against them. One of the …

How do I / Script

Convert Bytes to Megabytes and Gigabytes

Bytes to Megabytes 1.0*[Bytes Value]/(1024*1048576) Megabytes to Gigabytes 1.0*[Megabytes Value]/1024

Monitoring / PRTG / User Interface

PRTG Login Page customization to remove news feed, footer, logo, lower message text, lost password and download client links.

Detail on how to customise the login page of the lastest version of PRTG.

Azure / Cloud / IIS / WordPress

Part 1: Speeding up WordPress on Azure

Issue WordPress page load times chronically slow in Azure.

Automation / How do I / Powershell / Script / Storage / Systems Management

Bulk expanding disks after increasing their physical size

About This script deals with expanding the logical volumes in windows after they have been expanded in the hypervisor. It will work on any windows server which you have remote …

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