What’s new in Windows Admin Center Preview 1902

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Windows Admin Center is a new Windows Server management tools. Recently, Microsoft just released Windows Admin Center (WAC) preview 1902 build. This preview release builds on the previous 1812 version with some new features. Shared connections The Shared connections is a highly-requested feature for WAC. Shared Connections is a single connection list that can be shared across … Read more

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Linux: Download Free Guide

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As you know Microsoft SQL Server 2017 is now coming to Linux system. On this Guide, Microsoft explains How to installing Microsoft SQL Server Package, Administering and securing Microsoft SQL Server, and many more. If you are looking an answer for some question below, you can start by downloading this Free Guide. Can I use … Read more

Check Folder Size using PowerShell command

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Sometimes, you need to know how big a folder using PowerShell command. For the example once you on PowerShell session command and there is no GUI to check how big the folder size. Basically, you can use Get-ChildItem and Measure-Object CmdLet. Below the one-liner PowerShell command to get the FolderSize “{0:N2} MB” -f ((Get-ChildItem C:\users\ … Read more

Configure the DNS Client using PowerShell

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There is a DNSClient module on PowerShell you can use in addition ipconfig command. By default, this command is available on the PowerShell, if not, you can load the module manually using the command below: Import-Module DnsClient To see the available command on DnsClient module, you can use the Get-Command -Module DnsClient As you can see in … Read more

Windows Server Core: How to start PowerShell by Default

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By Default, Windows Server Core will start Command Prompt (cmd). However, if you would like to change the default cmd to PowerShell, you can change it by changing the Registry value. The Registry that I’m talking is located under the following location HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon Let’s change this setting to make the Windows Server Core starts … Read more

Microsoft Search Index Consume Disk Drive

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Today, when I logged on my Computer, I just noticed my disk storage is getting full. After scanning the disk, I found the Microsoft Search Index Database consumes huge disk space. Mostly the files are located at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows. Below are the steps to remove the files: open services.msc Stop the Windows Search service. Delete C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb Start the Windows Search service … Read more

RD Web Access: Server Error in ‘/RDWeb/Pages’ Application. Runtime Error

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One of our users reported that he can’t login to the RDWeb access and throwing the Application.Runtime Error after entering the login page as the image below: How to resolve Check if the user’s password has special character “<“ This is recommended solution. After confirming with the end-user, I found they change their password with the … Read more

SSH On Windows Server 2019

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Since the end of the last year, Windows Server 2019 and Windows 10 Build 1809 includes OpenSSH Server and Client as supported Feature-on-Demand. In this post, I will try to install and configure the OpenSSH Server on Windows Server 2019. Installing OpenSSH on Windows Server Open PowerShell Prompt as Administrator and run the following command … Read more