Microsoft.com Operations Team Blog
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The Case of My Mom’s Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation
As a reader of this blog I suspect that you, like me, are the IT support staff for your family and friends. And I bet many of you performed system maintenance duties when you visited your family and friends during the recent holidays. Every time I’m visiting...(read more)
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The Case of the Installer Service Error
This case unfolds with a network administrator charged with the rollout of the Microsoft Windows Intune client software on their network. Windows Intune is a cloud service that manages systems on a corporate network, keeping their software up to date...(read more)
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Fixing Disk Signature Collisions
Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical servers using tools like Sysinternals Disk2vhd and use a master virtual hard disk image as the base for copies created for virtual machine clones. In most cases, you can operate with...(read more)
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The Case of the Mysterious Reboots
This case opens when a Sysinternals power user, who also works as a system administrator at a large corporation, had a friend report that their laptop had become unusable. Whenever the friend connected it to a network, their laptop would reboot. The power...(read more)
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The Case of the Hung Game Launcher
I love the cases people send me where the Sysinternals tools have helped them successfully troubleshoot, but nothing is more satisfying than using them to solve my own cases. This case in particular was fun because, well, solving it helped me get back...(read more)
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Troubleshooting with the New Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference
Aaron Margosis and I are thrilled to announce that the long awaited, and some say long overdue, official guide to the Sysinternals tools is now available ! I’ve always had the idea of writing a book on the tools in the back of my mind, but it wasn’t until...(read more)
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How to add comment for a GPO with PowerShell
You might have seen GP MVP Jeremy Moskowitz’s post on how to recycle GPO comments. While Jeremy points out you can do this without a script…. You can also do it with a script! Our tech writer, Judith, walks us through the process:
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Listing all GPOs in the current forest
This post was written by Judith, a technical writer for Group Policy. This is the second post in a series on ways to use Powershell with Group Policy. See the first post on getting started with RSAT and Group Policy
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RSAT & GP Cmdlets
This post was written by Judith, a technical writer for Group Policy. This will be the first post in a series on ways to use Powershell with Group Policy
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Get GPO Backup with Powershell
Jeff Hicks, one of Microsoft’s Powershell MVPs, has written a great script for managing GPO backups: