Remote Desktop Gateway Service – register NPS
I struggled with getting a new Server 2016 Remote Desktop Gateway Service running. I followed the official documentation from Microsoft, configuring two servers...
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Moving OneNote notebooks to SharePoint
You may have noticed that Microsoft OneNote displays a little warning for notebooks stored in your Documents folder. This is because Windows computers that are ...
Windows 10 Wi-Fi – No Internet
SOS!! 22 hours with no wifi!!!! In the past 48 hours, two different family members in different households have reported problems with their Windows 10 laptops&...
Outlook MessageHeaderAnalyzer and Unsubscribe
Microsoft and other providers have published add-ins that provide additional functionality within Outlook and Outlook for web. We have enabled two add-ins which...
Scheduled tasks, PowerShell’s -file parameter, and array values
I wrote a script that accepts a comma-separated list of values, and the script worked just fine from the command-line. However, when I tried to configure a sche...
One-liner: duplicate a folder collection, without files
New fiscal year; new set of empty folders, but with the same structure and permissions as the previous year? Robocopy to the rescue: /e = copy all subdirectorie...
Robocopy file classes
This information comes from the Robocopy.exe documentation PDF file for Windows XP version, but it’s the best description I’ve been able to find. Fr...
Readable System Event logs
I think I’m not alone in finding the Service Control Manager logs so many informational events as to make it hard to read the important events in the Syst...
Renaming directories with invalid names
Somehow, a client managed to create several directories with names that ended with a period. However, File Explorer and other tools (i.e., backup) are unable to...
Troubleshooting Offline Files
My previous post describes the normal operation of Offline Files. And most of the time, “it just works.” But there are times when it won’t, an...