Windows Maintenance Tool fixes common problems

13th June 2025

https://github.com/ios12checker/Windows-Maintenance-Tool/releases/tag/Latest

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Windows AD can’t delete a DHCP

9th June 2025

Symptoms: when deleting a DHCP address, the address disappears when deleted, but comes back when refresh is clicked. My environment had 2 replicating DHCP servers but unsure if that’s important….

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Uncommon uses for Smart Devices

7th June 2025

Wallplugs with current sensing can be used to determine when an appliance has finished its cycle, ie wash machine.   The dryer commonly takes 220v so may have to use a…

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Find a client’s Public IP using CLI

4th June 2025

nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com

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Cove Backup can’t complete SQL backup

Symptoms: Error: Data source ‘MS SQL (VSS)’ is not ready for backup: VSS writer “SqlServerWriter” is missing. Please ensure that “SQL Server VSS Writer” service has enough rights. Change the…

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XCP How To Migrate A VM

29th May 2025

ProTip: Uninstall the VmWare Tools BEFORE migrating. There is a bug, the uninstaller tries to tell the VmHost something, it doesn’t succeed if it’s not hosted on VmWare anymore. Then…

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No IP after importing a Linux VM into XCP-NG (SOLVED)

27th May 2025

make sure no vmware tools are installed:sudo apt remove open-vm-tools Mount the vmtools CD/ISO:mount /dev/cdrom /mnt (may need to reboot to get this to take; shutdown -r)bash /mnt/Linux/install.shumount /dev/cdromshutdown -r…

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RDWeb Gateway Vulnerability

19th May 2025

The article does NOT list a fix for Windows 2012 so upgrade immediately or use a service like FreeMyIp to implement DNS allow list. Windows Remote Desktop Gateway UAF Vulnerability…

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Biz Pricing Tools

16th May 2025

Hard Drives https://diskprices.com

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Windows Directory large WinSxs

13th May 2025

Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore this will ask you to reboot if it cleans up some backups Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase The above will remove all previous versions of updates…

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