by skufel | Aug 15, 2015 | Hardware, Windows
When trying to recover my Lumia 820 from unsuccessful OS upgrade, phone went completely dead. I was not able to turn it on or see any sign of activity in the device (boot manager damage happened probably). At that stage I decided to look for tool which can recover my...
by skufel | Aug 15, 2015 | Hardware, Windows
When I tried to install Technical Preview of Windows 10 on my Nokia Lumia 820, I ended up with phone which went into infinite loop of updating. As a result of that phone became unusable and there was no way to bring it back to life without any additional intervention....
by skufel | Jul 26, 2015 | Development, SysAdmin, Windows
Many times you think how to extract some information from memory.dmp generated by Windows once it crashes. Let’s have a look into quick process, which might be very helpful in many cases during troubleshooting unexpected BSODs on client computers. Before we...
by skufel | Jul 22, 2015 | Automation, Databases, Scripting, Windows
Recently I went through requirement of running SQL scripts on multiple databases on different servers. As the list of databases was different from script to script I decided to create universal solution, which will allow to easily prepare for deployment and can be...
by skufel | May 11, 2015 | Automation, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
If you want to send email from PowerShell script via Google Mail: $SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com" $SMTPPort = "587" $SMTPUsername = "sender@gmail.com" $SMTPPassword = "password" $EmailSenderAddress = New-Object...
by skufel | May 11, 2015 | Automation, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Many times there is a need to store password in PowerShell script. Unfortunately to leave password in script is insecure solution and might cause an issue. So, what to do if there is a need to have password in a script and we don’t want to have it embedded in...
