Windows Admin – Page 3

24th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

Sublime Text – Installation and Configuration

I thought I would write an article on how to install and configure Sublime Text (currently using v3) as per how I like it. This post is more a reference guide for myself, so that I don’t forget how to do it in the future. If it helps you too – then awesome!

19th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

How To – Disable IPv6 on a Windows Machine

To completely disabled IPv6 on a machine you need to disable it from the Network Adapter and then also from the registry. To do this follow these steps:

19th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

Add DNS forwarding to resolve internet addresses

I am currently in the process of building a new home test lab, and wanted to be able to access the internet from within my test lab domain. The best way to do this is to add my ISP DNS servers as DNS forwards on my domain DNS server. To do this, follow the details below

18th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

How To – Send an email with PowerShell

This is a quick article on how to send an email with PowerShell. The way I have done this is that I have created a Send-Email PowerShell function which can then be added to your function library and dot sourced in your PowerShell scripts.

Alternatively you could just copy paste this function directly into your script and call it from there. Either way, it is simple and it works. Plus you can send both plain-text and HTML emails. So here it is…

17th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

PowerShell: Find AD User by Full Name

Most of the time when searching for a user in AD you are going to be finding them by their username, however what happens if you don’t have their username and you still want to find them?

This script allows you to search for AD users based on their Full Name even when you don’t know their username.

10th July 2013 · Luca Sturlese

Internet Explorer: Disable “Do you want to open or save this file?” download prompt

Recently I was asked to disable the “Do you want to open this file?” or “Do you want to open or save this file?” prompt in Internet Explorer for all InfoPath Template files (.xsn). Let me tell you it wasn’t easy to workout the solution, even though the actual solution is pretty easy.

10th April 2013 · Luca Sturlese

Fix – Trust relationship between workstation and primary domain has failed

Today I thought I would do a quick write up about something that has been annoying me for ages and a few months ago I finally found the fix!

8th April 2013 · Luca Sturlese

PowerShell Script: Get a list of printed documents

I thought I would share something I did a few months ago and turned out to be pretty useful… a little PowerShell script to get a list of printed documents.

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