I personally need to generate file hashes quite a bit for verifying file integrity as well as analyzing malware samples. I really wanted to have code that I had complete control over so I wrote a short powershell script and some minor registry editing to set this up.
Registry Change
If you...
Here is a powershell script that collects roughly the same info for BSOD analysis. Simply run it from an elevated powershell prompt. It creates a folder on the desktop called SYSTEMREPORT and a SYSTEMREPORT.zip. It will also prompt you and enable crash dumps if you don't have them enabled...
Windows Management Framework 5.0 includes updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Windows Remote Management (WinRM), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
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I can't believe I've never blogged about this project from Link Removed. I spend a good 30+ minutes going through all my post resources, looking for past posts on this. Yet nothing. What was I thinking?
Well to make it up to you and Mads he gets not one post this week, but two! :)
Anyway...
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29 select videos, posts and shows from last week. Next week will be interesting with the Microsoft MVP invading the Redmond campus for MVP Global Summit...
One of the highlights of last week was the DEVintersection 2015 event of which you can watch a number of sessions and keynotes on-demand...
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Running Win7 SP1.
I'm used to having Picture Manager automatically open and import photos from my camera when it got connected. Apparently, this changed recently and photos are now getting stored in Dropbox/Camera Uploads.
I like it better the old way. Can I get it back?
Interested in seeing how line of business (LOB) apps built on Microsoft technologies are transforming commercial industries (e.g. retail, hospitality, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing) and public sectors (e.g. education, public safety)? Check out this multi-part Link Removed where...
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Hi. I'm trying to wake my win 7 pc from sleep (not from hibernation) using task scheduler but I'm having some problems. The pc does not wake up.
I have set a task that has an action to starts cmd.exe and argument is "/c "exit"". Windows runs as a shell and apparently running windows as a shell...
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The SCAP Extensions enable Configuration Manager to consume Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) data streams, assess systems for compliance, and generate report results in SCAP format by taking advantage of the capabilities in the compliance settings feature.
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I have searched the internet to try and find a way to fix this issue and have tried every registry hack I've come across but have not been able to fix this. From all the reading I've done it seems that this has been an issue in some way or form since windows 95! Here is a run down with how it...
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Blake McNeill gets the Hat Tip today for posting about this in the MVP IoT Yammer Group.
GHI Electronics has been a bunch of busy beavers releasing a ton of very cool components. Recently we highlighted, Tipping your Raspberry Pi FEZ HAT and today we're highlighting another, one that will make...
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How to integrate an existing Salesforce deployment with Azure Active Directory (part 2 of 2). This video covers how to set up automated user provisioning and how to control which users have access to Salesforce.
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Even with the Channel 9 Studio closed in order to host the Channel 9 Live: Developer’s Guide to Windows 10 event, there was still a huge number of posts this week! Here are just 30 of them...
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This week on Channel 9, Nikola and Vlad discuss the week's top developer news, including...
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I sometimes copy/move multiple files + folders within WinExplorer by Drag&Drop to another folder
where these files & folder already exist (as an older version with the same name).
Then always a popup prompt appears aksing me if I want to
- replace the old existing files
- cancel the operation
-...
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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Windows Azure IaaS team meets up AGAIN with the man, the myth, the legend - Jeffrey Snover and this time talks about DSC and ARM templates.
Don't forget - we're always looking for Suggestions and Questions here in the comments section OR via...
Hi there, I would like that my Firefox starts automatically after logon . How do I do that? Please be as simple as possible, I am just fairly good in following instructions:))
Thanks and have a good day!
Hello, does anyone know if you can make a batch file to open the start menu with one key.
Ever since I up graded to win 8.1 the win key stopped working
Thx