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Summary: This took me a little while to figure out.  Here are the basic steps.  This is so you can sign any scripts using your locally available domain CA.  By doing this, you can sign scripts and they will be authorized for use on your local domain.  This is so you can keep your powershell execution policy as remotesigned rather than unrestricted.

Summary: Was looking for the method to do this, it’s pretty simple, but everyone had very detailed posts of other things they were doing (checks and balances).  Here is the key snippet to do it: 1: #This simply gets you the object to work with. You can replace 2: #'nameofcomputer' with a variable to target more systems. 3: $admin = [adsi]( "WinNT://" + nameofcomputer + "/administrator, user" ) 4:   5: #This invokes the set password method and changed the administrator password 6: #to Whatever1 7: $admin.psbase.invoke( "SetPassword" , "Whatever1" ) If you want more robust script that records data of it’s changes see here .

Perhaps the most useless error message on the planet, right next to PC Load Letter. [UPDATE: The workaround detailed below refers to quickprep only.  Versions 4.5 and above now allow you to use customization specifications in vCenter.  I'd recommend using those for easier administration, especially when expanding your environment.] Summary: This error message can appear when deploying View Pool from a Parent VM (aka Gold Image) that has Microsoft’s App-V 4.5 client installed: View Composer agent initialization state error (6): Unknown failure (waited 0 seconds) Workaround: On the Parent VM, change the “Application Virtualization Client” service to manual. Next steps are completely voluntary.  The only reason I went further was so that as soon as a user logs into a View session, their App-V applications would show up immediately. Create a batch/cmd file and place it on the root directory of the VM. (Commonly C:\) Open Notepad Paste the following...

Found this solution online, had to sift through to find it so thought it would be best to post it. 1. Check if Plug and Play Software Enumerator is installed on your machine (Device Manager / System devices) 2. If it is not continue to next step. 3. Locate "machine.inf" on your OS, copy it somewhere and modify it (find "ExcludeFromSelect=*" and remove the line or simply exclude it from processing by adding a ";" at the beginning) 4. Go to Control Panel /Ad HW and follow the wizard towards manual selection of device to be added 5. Select Add System device 6. Select Have disk... 7. Navigate to changed machine.inf 8. From the list select standard devices (in the left list) and " Plug and Play Software Enumerator " in the right list 9. Finish the Installation Here is the original thread: http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-34101-The-driver-has-been-enabled-but-has-not-been-started.html

Summary: Make sure the Bluetooth Support Service is running as "Local System" or an account w/ administrative privileges. Ran into an interesting issue today. Just recently purchased this little AZIO bluetooth dongle for my work laptop. It came w/ software/drivers so I installed them. Don't know what it was about it, but the software ran like crap (high cpu, buggy connections to my phones). So I decided to drop back to using the straight Microsoft built-in management. I had no issues connecting my phones, but was getting an access denied message anytime I tried enabling a service for my phone like DUN (Dial-Up Networking). I have admin permissions so a security seemed odd. Not sure if this is by default, but it ended up being that my "Bluetooth Support Service" was running as a "NT Authority\Local Service" account. As soon as I changed it to "Local System", everything was working

I was having issues where my PS3 was not seeing my Desktop Media stores. I had turned sharing on but was still not able to see it. It saw my laptop just fine so I knew the problem was w/ my desktop. I started scouring the web looking for ways to fix it, needless to say, I came up empty handed. I started looking through my system log and found that my "Windows Media Network Sharing Service" was not creating the share because my DRM was corrupt. Since I did not have any DRM media I was not concerned on losing it so I started searching on how to fix it. Here is what I came across. Hope this helps some of you out there. (I tried posting this to the playstation forums, but either the site was having issues or my computer was) Just follow the procedures listed on this site: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;810422 If you were like me and don't have any DRM protected stuff (Windows XP SP2), just do this: Go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users Go to Tools...

In a previous post I talked about free tools you can use to protect, prevent, and remove spyware, trojans, viruses, etc. What I forgot to mention was a critical and important piece, the firewall. Both Windows XP and Vista come built-in w/ a software firewall. You want to make sure it's turned on. Most computers installed with Windows XP or Vista have this turned on by default. If you have Norton, McAfee, or TrendMicro they may have provided you w/their version of a firewall. Most often Windows will warn you if you do not have your firewall turned on. But if you want to be sure, you can follow these steps(Windows XP): Click Start Click Control Panel (or Settings, then Control Panel) If in classic view(many icons) double click the Windows Firewall icon. If in Simple View like pictured below click "Security Center" By following these steps you should be able to see whether your firewall is turn on or off. Windows Vista: Click the Windows Icon (usually located on the bo...

There are 3 free tools that I personally use to keep my PC systems free of the garbage that the internet can produce: AVG Free - A free Anti-Virus tool that is quite popular and does a fine job of keeping viruses off my computer and updates itself automatically. Spybot - A free Anti-Spyware tool. This works well to immunize your computer from known bad websites and helps to rid your computer of trojans and spyware if you do get infected. If your computer does get infected with something, the best way to run spybot to get rid of those nasty infections is under Windows *Safe Mode. Spybot does not have a automatic update method, so you will need to run it periodically and run its update task. I would recommend to run it at least once a month to update it. Spyware Blaster - A free Spyware Prevention Tool. This tool is simply meant to augment Spybot in further in its immunization task. Spyware Blaster does have an autoupdate function, but requires you to pay for it. Otherwise you have to...