Windows | Tech Tips

How to Force PowerShell to Display Output on a New Line

by Jacki Moody | Oct 29, 2015 | PowerShell

When displaying PowerShell results, sometimes you want to manually force a new line to help format it. PowerShell uses the escape character with two codes to do that: `r and `n. The first code, `r, stands for carriage return. It sets the current position of the...

Remote Desktop Connection Manager Error: Unable to Enumerate Sessions

by Jacki Moody | Sep 29, 2015 | Windows

The Remote Desktop Connection Manager has a cool feature that let’s you right-click a server and list all the current sessions. It will also let you know if the sessions are active or disconnected. This works great, unless you get the error message: Unable to...

How to Pin Windows Update to the Task Bar

by Jacki Moody | Sep 18, 2015 | SQL, Windows

Patching windows and SQL is something I do every month on every computer. One thing that I have found extremely annoying in both Windows 8.x and Server 2012 and 2012 R2 is that you cannot easily pin Windows Update to the task bar to make it easy to launch. I have...

Change Images on Cireson SCSM Portal

by Jacki Moody | Jun 15, 2015 | System Center Service Manager

While working on the Cireson portal adding image icons, I found that it only remembered the first graphic put in. The fix takes a few steps, but it is relatively easy. Edit the request offering whose image is not updating and note the management pack it is stored in....

Change Chrome Omnibox Default Search Engine back to Google when Grayed Out

by Jacki Moody | May 7, 2015 | Windows

Your default search engine can get changed in Chrome by malicious code or well-meaning administrators. When this occurs, the option to change your search engine is grayed-out. In the example below, the administrator used Active Directory Group Policy to change the...

PowerShell: Get Active Directory Username and Email Address of All Group Members

by Jacki Moody | Apr 21, 2015 | Active Directory, PowerShell

I was recently asked to provide the username and email address of our Active Directory users in a specific group. This seemed an easy task on the surface. I ran this code on a small group and worked flawlessly. Get-ADGroupMember -identity ‘groupname’ |...