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Author: hewagen

  • StayAwake (Updated)

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    Good day everyone! Some time ago, I created myself a little tool to prevent my computer from going to sleep or standby. I worked with it the last couple of years but lately I thought about an option to disable the tool at a certain time, like “Keep my PC alive until 7 pm and…

  • Powershell Few-Liners (Miscellaneous)

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    This article is part of the few-liner series, where you can find some useful powershell examples. Of course, you need to adjust the values/paths to your needs. Also, I know there may be other ways to achieve the same results but this is not a base for an “which-command-is-better” competition. Depending on the time you…

  • Powershell Few-Liners (Active Directory)

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    This article is part of the few-liner series, where you can find some useful powershell examples. Of course, you need to adjust the values/paths to your needs. Also, I know there may be other ways to achieve the same results but this is not a base for an “which-command-is-better” competition. Depending on the time you…

  • Powershell Few-Liners (Windows Events)

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    This article is part of the few-liner series, where you can find some useful powershell examples. Of course, you need to adjust the values/paths to your needs. Also, I know there may be other ways to achieve the same results but this is not a base for an “which-command-is-better” competition. Depending on the time you…

  • Create a boot trace using WPR

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    Hi all, I am Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer at Microsoft. This blog post gives a short overview on how to create a boot trace with Windows Performance Recorder. It does not cover trace analysis. Creating a boot trace is basically quite self-explaining but as I often need to explain it to customers, I thought…

  • GimmeNote

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    General Information GimmeNote is an Outlook VSTO plugin written in C#. It enables users to add notes to mail and appointment items. GimmeNote is designed to work with your primary (default) mailbox, which must be an Exchange account. IMAP and POP3 accounts do not support categories. Creating notes should also work on secondary accounts (even…

  • Programmatically delete a user’s profile

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    Deleting old and orphaned user profiles on a PC can easily be done using the Advanced System Properties dialog. But is there a way to delete local Profiles remotely? In short: Yes, there is. And even better, you can do this all from command line or from Powershell. The WMI class Win32_UserProfile offers a not…

  • Fix orphaned Start Menu items

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    Hey community, this is Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer for Windows Client platform. Today I want to provide you a workaround for an issue I ran into a couple of times now at my customers. Please note that at the date of writing the product group and engineers are investigating the root cause and probably…

  • Stay awake!

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    From time to time it appears that I need to keep my PC running and prevent it from going to sleep. There are a couple of places where screen timeouts and standby/sleep options can be configured: Engery options, screen saver, system idle timeout, just to name the most common ones. To get rid of it…

  • UE-V Template Generator Error

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    Related to: ADK 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809 After installing the UE-V Template generator it throws an error when you try to create a custom template. In the following example I’m trying to create a template for 7ZIP. Clicking Next triggers the UAC. After confirming the UAC window with Yes, following error appears. Additionally, the SCM…