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Shortcut to Windows Startup Folder

by Jacki Moody | Oct 28, 2013 | Windows

There are two startup folders in windows, which are fairly deep in the folder tree. The shortcut to get to them is shell:startup or shell:common startup You can execute this in the run menu, or from the Start Menu on Windows 8.x and Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2....

PowerShell AccessDenied,PSSessionStateBroken Error When Using Alternate Credentials

by Jacki Moody | Oct 23, 2013 | PowerShell, Windows

PowerShell does not allow you to use a remote session if you have a network configured as public instead of private. If you have a public network setup and use the Get-Credential command, even when executing PowerShell on localhost, you get the following error:...

LDAP Query to Find an OU by Contains

by Jacki Moody | Oct 15, 2013 | Active Directory

Active Directory does not provide “contains” as an option for searching. If you want to find an OU by its partial name, you can do an advanced search. For example, if you want to find every OU that contains the letters “grp,” you and find it...

Safari on iPad will not authenticate on IIS with iOS7

by Jacki Moody | Oct 2, 2013 | iPad

There is a bug in iOS 7 and 7.02 that prevents authentication to IIS servers. If you attempt to browse to a website that requires authentication, it will prompt for authentication, but never bring up the page. You may see the correct URL in the address bar, but the...

Query for SQL Server Information

by Jacki Moody | Oct 1, 2013 | SQL

Have you ever wanted to know basic information about your SQL server? You can use the SERVERPROPERTY command to retrieve that information with a query. Note that SERVERPROPERTY(ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS) will return the Physical Name of the active server. If you...