Mar 14, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Installing WMF 5 and PowerShell 5 on Windows 2012 R2

Introduction PowerShell continues to improve, many features are being added and now we have PowerShell 5 that is available for installation on Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.1. The installation is simple and only requires a reboot. Windows Management Framework 5.0 (WMF 5) includes updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Windows Remote Management (WinRM),... read more

Mar 12, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How to Manually change your NIC to Promiscuous Mode on Windows 2008 R2

What Is The Promiscuous Mode? By default when a network card receives a packet, it checks whether the packet belongs to itself. If not, the interface card normally drops the packet. But in promiscuous mode, the card doesn’t drop the packet. Instead, it will accept all the packets which flows through the network card. Some Network Interface Cards (NICs) may not allow network traffic after you create a... read more

Feb 21, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How to Convert MBR to GPT Using Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional

Introduction This document explains how to use Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional to convert an existing disk from MBR to GPT and set the allocation cluster size to 64K from the Microsoft default. This can be done on a disk with data without data loss. Process First install Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 on your system. This is a paid program and requires keys to install. Installation is simple and... read more

Jan 28, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Using EMC PowerPath Migration Enabler for Storage Migrations on Windows

Introduction This post covers the use of PowerPath Migration Enabler to migrate files and programs from old to new disks without interruption on Windows servers. If you are migrating to new storage, this is a very handy thing to have. You must have PowerPath 5.7 SP2 or higher installed with the PowerPath Migration Enabler license key enabled on the host. Process The Process Before we start you will need... read more

Jan 11, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Maintain Your Windows Desktop Clean and Free of Malware

Introduction I know, hard to believe that you can keep a Windows system clean and free of malware, but you can keep it at bay using a few free tools out there and some common sense. In this post we will cover a few tools and ways to accomplish the task at hand. Tools So what are some of the tools out there? Not surprisingly there are several free tools out there that are great. A few of the tools I use on... read more