Recently I needed to unzip file from PowerShell script. Here is result what I did use to achieve that:

$archiveDir = "C:\Downloads"
$fileZip = $archiveDir + "\file.zip"
$shell=new-object -com shell.application
$zip = $shell.NameSpace($fileZip)
foreach ($item in $zip.items())
{
 $shell.NameSpace($archiveDir).CopyHere($item)
}

After installing Windows Hyper-V 2012 sometimes there might be some issues with remote management (even if enabled via sconfig).

In that case few firewall rules might have to be enabled on Hyper-V machine using PowerShell:

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Check this out 🙂 Upgrading Windows from 1.0 to Windows 8 Pro.

It’s great video showing the long way we went from Windows 1.0 to current Windows 8 🙂

When tried to access SugarCRM 6.5.13 after installation following error showed up in browser:

CRASH: PHP segmentation violation in session_start() called at [/install.php:486]

To fix that issue .htaccess file has to be created in SugarCRM main older with following content:

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Quick steps which should be done as pre-migration steps when you want to migrate System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 to System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager.

Diagram below shows schematics of the lab environment prepared for migration testing.

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