One of the great things at Microsoft is the interaction with very smart colleagues. A question was posed regarding DNS. Most admins will know that DNS uses port 53, but is that TCP or UDP?
The answer is Consultant’s answer …
Well, finally we are back online! It’s been a long sorry saga over the last couple of years for the MSDN and TechNet blog platforms. In some ways this is not a new phenomena for bloggers at Microsoft. Things have …
To remove duplicates using PowerShell is exceedingly straightfroward. However, I have a habit of forgetting the cmdlet so parking this here for future reference.
For example, we can use the Get-Unique cmdlet or Select-Object -Unique parameter.
As a …
In current versions of Windows the venerable snipping tool (snippingtool.exe) has been updated with improved functionality.
This is the Snipping Tool from a Windows 7 lab machine:
Clicking on Options we see:
Since today is World Emoji Day, the below tip is rather relevant!
Did you know that Windows now has a keyboard shortcut built in to allow to access emojis?
Windows key and period / full stop *
or
Windows …
This post will attempt to resolve some download frustration if your are looking for an older version of the .NET Framework. This is an issue with Exchange 2010 as the initial .NET framework for that platform has not been updated, …
This tip is for all the folks out there who want a quick and easy way to open an additional instance of an application which they are running or to elevate an application.
The below tips were captured from a …
Having to manually open a blank MMC and add in the certificate MMC every time will quickly bore you. I used to then save it onto my desktop as shown below so I would only have to do this once …
When building out a lab, you might need to attach the same ISO to multiple VMs. In this case I was installing multiple Exchange 2016 severs, and wanted to easily add the same ISO file to each of the VMs.…
This is one of those little things that make life much, much easier. Imagine the scenario; you go to eject a USB disk drive or USB flash and Windows tells you that it is still in use. How to track …