Oct 28, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Manage Hidden files and Directories from the command line in Windows

How To Manage Hidden files and Directories from the command line in Windows Introduction Managing Windows hidden files and directories from the GUI is easy, managing from the command line is a bit more challenging, but not difficult. in this post we will cover the different ways to handle many different tasks using the command line. Windows files/folders have a special attribute called hidden attribute.... read more

Oct 20, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Resolving Distributed Transaction Issues with BizTalk, MS DTC and Clustered MSSQL Servers

Introduction After a recent storage migration of a Windows 2008 R2 cluster that involved removing the clustered DTC (Distributed Transaction Coordinator) starting seeing SQL transaction errors from the BizTalk server that was connecting to the SQL database instance running on the clustered servers. These are the steps followed to resolve the issue. Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) is... read more

Oct 12, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Creating and Managing Scheduled Tasks from the Command Line in Windows

Introduction Scheduled tasks are a wonderful tool to use in Windows to perform repetitious tasks on the server and your system. This can be updating, backups, cleanups and many other tasks. There are many different ways using command line and the GUI to accomplish adding, changing and deleting tasks. In this post we will cover using the command line to manage and maintain scheduled tasks. Scheduled tasks... read more

Oct 11, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Installing WMF 5 and PowerShell 5 on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Introduction Exciting news! Microsoft has released a preview for Windows Management Framework 5 (WMF) and PowerShell 5 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. In this post we will cover how to install both on your Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 systems. This is a preview version as of April 2015 so make sure this is not being installed on your production systems. System Requirements Supported... read more

Oct 6, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Reading HFS+ formatted disks on Windows 7

Introduction Ran into a challenge the other day in retrieving data off a crashed Macbook Pro system which is formatted in HFS+. Currently I have a very old iBook that I have used in the past, but it has lived it’s very useful life. So I had to find another way to access the data off the drive. I knew there was a way to accomplish this in Windows so I started searching around for a Windows solution,... read more