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HOW TO ANSWER A QUESTION

Chris Maunder — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:09:00 GMT

Apologies for the shouting but this is important.

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cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

How to get an answer to your question

Chris Maunder — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:05:00 GMT

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cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project Co-founder

Microsoft C++ MVP

HttpClient.Timeout

Frank Czap — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:20:00 GMT

where is this setting located

Network Performance

Richard Andrew x64 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:40:00 GMT

Is there a program, either third-party or built into Windows that can test the effective bits per second between any two machines on a LAN?

How would I go about something like that?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Mapped Drives & Administrator Rights

Richard Andrew x64 — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:11:00 GMT

Here's something that's been perplexing me for a while:

My user account on a Windows 10 PC has several mapped drives that access various servers on the LAN. I'm able to use them just fine.

However, when I launch any program "As Admin", the mapped drives are not there, inside the program. It's as if I'm running as a different user when I launch programs as Admin.

But the perplexing part is that my user account is a member of the Adminstrators group.

So why doesn't it launch the programs as me, but with administrative rights?

And if it's not launching the programs as me, then who is it launching them as?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Linux GRUB2 issues

k5054 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 06:29:00 GMT

Does anyone know where to find the documentation on grub? There's lots of places out there that give you a little information about how to handle simple tasks, like recreating the GRUB table, etc, but I'm looking for something more detailed.

Keep Calm and Carry On

Strong Certificate Matching

Member 15840404 — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:05:00 GMT

Hello,

I've been tasked with implementing Strong Certificate Matching on Enterprise servers. After doing some research I saw that this could cause major authentication issues on Domain Controllers. Does anyone know how this is safely rolled out or has anyone does this in their environment yet? What systems does it affect?

Thanks

Track Down Memory Leak

Richard Andrew x64 — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:50:00 GMT

I think a kernel mode driver is chewing up all of the memory in my company laptop.

The Task Manager shows no process using an excessive amount of memory, but by the end of the day, all 16 GB of RAM is filled up and the page file is at its max. And no, the total RAM usage of all running user mode processes doesn't add up to 16 GB.

The only thing that fixes it is to restart the system. Signing out and back in doesn't fix it.

If it is a kernel mode driver doing it, how can I track down which one it is?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Windows 10 Button is grayed out

MarkBlackburn77 — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 17:55:00 GMT

How do i fix Windows 10 cause the YES button is grayed out and is not appealing... i need that to restart my administrator account cause i deleted it... Can someone please help???

Video background don't save after several hours.

Alex Newman 2022 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:29:00 GMT

i did a video background but why video doesn't show after some hours?

I did this by this manual https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_fullscreen_video.asp

video from filehosting https://download2278.mediafire.com/5vt6nd8x8sag/eojara7axn3kdgz/vlc-record-2022-06-17-01h10m14s-Pok%C3%A9mon+Journeys_+The+Series_S01E37_That+New+Old+Gang+of+Mine%21.mkv-.mp4

Please help me.

Task Scheduler

Richard Andrew x64 — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 22:54:00 GMT

My PC won't stay asleep for very long. I've made sure to disable "Allow this device to wake the computer" in the network adapter.

What's the easiest way of locating a scheduled task that might be waking the machine? Must I look at every task and check it manually?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Trying to Cast Video on a Mixed Network

Roger Wright — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 06:41:00 GMT

This is a rather complicated thing to visualize, but I could use some help configuring my router. There are really two things I'm unable to figure out.

First, I have Starlink as my provider. From their modem/earth station I cable to a small switch. That splits the signal between my PC, and the router that controls the rest of the network. That router is located in another part of the building. The router is a rather nice unit, hosting 4 network ports and a dual wireless network. The problem is that, my PC is on the wired network, and the TV is on the wireless network. I cannot get the "Cast" icon to appear when playing videos that I'd like to watch on the TV.

What's annoying is that a friend of mine has her system set up the same way, on a 15 yo primitive router, and hers works fine.

Any ideas?

Will Rogers never met me.

Import/export Windows Server 2019 Local Security Policy

Usman Asghar 2022 — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:56:00 GMT

Hi All,
Need your help please.
I am trying to determine how best to export and import the firewall rules configured in Local Security Policy on a Windows Server Core machine. (no GUI) Neither secedit.exe nor netsh.exe seem to include firewall rules when exporting Local Security Policy. As the hypervisor is not domain connected, we can't use GPO for firewall rules.
Already Commenced host based firewall config through Local Security Policy, which will need to be exported to file and then imported into the hypervisor. As the hypervisor is Hyper-V Server, it has no GUI for managing Local Security Policy locally.

Best Cross Platform Unified Endpoint Manager for Windows , Ubuntu and Mac OS ?

DATA EXPUNGED — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:46:00 GMT

I'm currently looking for a good UEM like ManageEngine , Jump Cloud . I found Jump Cloud better but it doesn't offer support to linux machines ... Is there any service that offers cross platform support?

I mainly need to be able to Peform Patch Management , Restrict Softwares , Controlling User Account and enforcing disk encryption .

Thanks

Any DLP that blocks Non Compliant Devices from downloading email attatchments - Zoho Web Email?

DATA EXPUNGED — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 14:16:00 GMT

Hello Sysadmins , I'm looking for a DLP , probably a web based one in this case I guess .. that could just block noncompliant devices from downloading Zoho email attachments .

Our organization has Azure AD Premium and has a scale size of 10 devices for now .

Thanks

Deleting Hiberfil.sys

Richard Andrew x64 — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 01:27:00 GMT

Does anyone know how to delete hiberfil.sys on an old drive that is NOT my boot drive?

Windows won't let me do anything to the file. I tried taking ownership of it, but that also seems to be disallowed.

Any ideas?

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

will you please unsubscribe my account

Member 9716709 — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 20:23:00 GMT

please

How to use servers safely in Google Cloud

sunny-sem — Tue, 11 May 2021 21:52:00 GMT

Hello everyone, there are several servers in G-Cloud. Each has an external ip address. We want to securely give employees access rights to these servers. Domain Active There are no directories, and VPNs do not have finances. How to give rights to people so that only they can connect?

Hyper-V Session Settings Missing

Richard Andrew x64 — Sun, 09 May 2021 19:12:00 GMT

Is Enhanced Session mode only available for generation 2 virtual machines?

I have googled, and I can't figure out why I can't turn it on for one of my Win 10 VMs.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

What are the challenges that sysadmins face in managing end user laptops/desktops?

Member 15100339 — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:32:00 GMT

Which of the below are the challenges that sysadmins face in managing end user laptops/desktops?
1. Visibility into the state of the fleet (laptops/desktops)
2. Bringing devices into the desired state
3. Making sure patches are deployed to all laptops/desktops
4. Managing configuration drifts in end user machines
5. Enforcing compliance rules on end user machines
6. Meeting auditing requirements
7. Using different tools for different OS
8. Rolling back deployed changes in case of any issues