by skufel | Jul 2, 2013 | Scripting, Windows
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)...
by skufel | Jun 26, 2013 | Scripting, SysAdmin, Virtualization
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: enable-netfirewallrule -displaygroup...
by skufel | Jun 4, 2013 | Windows
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 🙂
by skufel | May 23, 2013 | Development
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...
by skufel | May 20, 2013 | Infrastructure, SysAdmin, System Center
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....
by skufel | Apr 7, 2013 | Hardware, Network
Default driver for Linksys WUSB100 Ver.2 doesn’t work on Windows 7 64-bit. Instead of that Ralink USB RT2870 (currently MediaTek) driver can be used. Properly working driver can be found here.
by skufel | Apr 4, 2013 | Databases, Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Recently I had issue which occured without any particular reason on SQL Server 2012. All of the sudden I start getting error message: Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005...
by skufel | Mar 25, 2013 | Databases, Development, Infrastructure, SysAdmin, Windows
Some of applications require additional SQL Server 2008 or 2012 fetures installed. Some of these features might not be available in standard setup of SQL Server. In that case you have to refer to Microsoft Dowloads web page in order to download additional components...
by skufel | Mar 25, 2013 | Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
Unfortunately there is a problem when you try to add .Net Framework 3.51 to Windows Server 2012 using Server Manager. In order to fix that issue and get .Net Framework 3.51 installed (which is required by majority of applications and servers) issue following command...
by skufel | Mar 22, 2013 | Infrastructure, Scripting, SysAdmin, Windows
In order to assign static IPv4 address to Windows Server 2012 Core using power shell use: New-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 172.16.48.11 -InterfaceAlias "Ethernet" -DefaultGateway 172.16.48.5 -AddressFamily IPv4 -PrefixLength...
