Remove a duplicate RDS key pack without rebuilding the database
RD Licensing Manager has no Delete. Remove one redundant RDS CAL key pack by its KeyPackId with PowerShell and leave the rest of the licence server alone.
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Practical guides for system administrators - Windows, PowerShell, Active Directory, networking, and infrastructure.
dfsrdiag backlog: why the count is not in the output
dfsrdiag is the operational and diagnostic command line tool that ships with DFS Replication, and its dfsrdiag backlog subcommand answers one question:…
SPF, DKIM and DMARC: why a TXT query finds only SPF
Three DNS records decide whether mail claiming to come from a domain is accepted, and all three are TXT records. That is…
New-NetFirewallRule: why Get-NetFirewallRule shows no ports
New-NetFirewallRule creates an inbound or outbound Windows Firewall rule and attaches it to a policy store, which is the scripted replacement for…
Enter-PSSession and WinRM: why -ComputerName is not remoting
Enter-PSSession and WinRM in practice: which PowerShell answers the call, why remote objects lose their methods, and why local variables arrive empty.
nano editor tutorial: a hands-on practice walk-through
nano is the editor for people who just need to change a line and get on with their day. It opens the…
vi editor tutorial: a hands-on practice walk-through
vi is the editor you are most likely to find already installed: on Linux servers, on ESXi hosts, in rescue shells, usually…
Set-Service StartupType and Get-Service: Windows services in PowerShell
Windows services are the one part of a server that keeps running after everyone logs off, and PowerShell reads and writes them…
How to upgrade PowerShell 7 on Windows 10 and 11
PowerShell 7 installs beside Windows PowerShell 5.1, it does not replace it. How to upgrade with winget, the MSI, the ZIP or the MSIX package, and what changes after 7.6.
esxcli storage core path list: reading and fixing ESXi storage paths
When a datastore goes read only at 02:00, or a LUN that used to have four paths suddenly has three, the answer…