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Windows 10 search not working

After the October patch Tuesday taskbar search suddenly stopped working along with the search itself – when something was typed search simply disappears, taskbar turns black/empty. I found in the log  the following errors: Faulting application name: SearchUI.exe, version: 10.0.14393.953, time stamp: 0x58ba5a2f Faulting module name: SearchUI.exe, version: 10.0.14393.953, time stamp: 0x58ba5a2f Exception code: 0xc000027b And: Activation of app Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUI Please note that i disabled Cortanta through the registry long time ago – I don’t use and so on, no matter the reason, I just don’t want it. So it seems that after the last patches Microsoft tried to shove it down my throat again, of course, without asking me do I want it at… Read More »Windows 10 search not working

No Internet Access Icon Windows 7/2008

Today I had to do this for an isolated network, it was a great reminder 🙂 https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/5a69ed0c-2fcf-483c-ab1d-ad5b16fa32ca/isolated-network-without-internet-access-how-do-i-make-the-yellow-no-internet-access-icon-go?forum=w7itpronetworking I had some missing GPO templates (2008 R2 server) which are easily obtained from Microsoft Installation is straight forward and explained under Install Instructions. And yes, you need both policies enabled.

Install Primary and Additional Domain Controller With PowerShell Cheat Sheet

# # Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment #Do no forget to rename the computer, set static IP, enable remote desktop if needed and so on # Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services Install-ADDSForest ` -CreateDnsDelegation:$false ` -DatabasePath “C:\Windows\NTDS” ` -DomainMode “Win2012” ` -DomainName “domain.name.com” ` -DomainNetbiosName “DOMAIN” ` -ForestMode “Win2012” ` -InstallDns:$true ` -LogPath “C:\Windows\NTDS” ` -NoRebootOnCompletion:$false ` -SysvolPath “C:\Windows\SYSVOL” ` -Force:$true #Add Secondary DC # # Do not forget to rename the computer first Rename-Computer -NewName whatever #Set Static IP and DNS #Could be done with interface index as well #get-wmiobject win32_networkadapter | select netconnectionid, name, InterfaceIndex, netconnectionstatus #netconnection status 2 gives us only connected adapters 🙂 New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias Ethernet -IPAddress YOURSERVERIP  -DefaultGateway GATEWAYIP -AddressFamily IPv4… Read More »Install Primary and Additional Domain Controller With PowerShell Cheat Sheet

PowerShell TimeZone, Date and So On

If someone ever wondered how to change time, timezone or date in a powershell session or in a core server here is how. If today is 27 May 2017 and we want to set the clock to 16:12: Set-Date -Date “5/27/2017 16:12” More on this here. If only the timezone needs to be changed lets say to Central European: Set-TimeZone -Id “Central European Standard Time” List of all time zones could be obtained in powershell with the following command (Thank you scriptingguy you are priceless): [System.TimeZoneInfo]::GetSystemTimeZones()    

Query Workstations SCCM

Fox x64 bit workstations: Or use the one from this Technet post select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_OPERATING_SYSTEM.Caption like “%7%” and SMS_R_System.Client = 1 and SMS_R_System.Obsolete = 0 and SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.SystemType = “x64-based PC” If you dont want to filter obsolete and client installed machines remove ” SMS_R_System.Client = 1 and SMS_R_System.Obsolete = 0 and” For x86 workstations:   select *  from  SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.SystemType = “X86-based PC”

Windows 10 Privacy

If you are using Windows 10, do yourself a favor and just use this tool http://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/

SharePoint 2013 Instalation Tips

Studying for SharePoint 2013 exam, I’ve decided to install it in my lab and as usual I had some issues. I was thinking to use SQL server on premises used for SCCM 2012 R2 test lab, but it is 32-bit, therefore, unusable. Due to the limited resources (You know, RAM goes first) I ended installing 64-bit SQL Server 2012 SP1 on the same server (standard 2012 R2) side-by-side with 32-bit SQL. It’s not the best practice, but it is OK for a constantly changing test lab. Installation was pretty straight forward, all prerequisites were already installed and in minutes 64-bit SQL server was in place. I have two pre-created domain accounts sqladmin and spsservice used… Read More »SharePoint 2013 Instalation Tips

Create an SCCM collection containing inactive clients excluding certain computers

Create a new collection and use the following query to select inactive agents, the part in bold is to exclude all computers with name stating with PCNAME% from it if needed, % is equal to * in sql so if your naming convention is pcname01, pcname02  and so on pcname06% will exclude pcname060, pcname061, pcname0600 and so on. If you want to remove one or two names only you can use (“pcname01″,”pcname02”) instead of pcname% select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_CH_ClientSummary on SMS_G_System_CH_ClientSummary.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_SYSTEM.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_CH_ClientSummary.ClientActiveStatus = 0 and SMS_G_System_SYSTEM.Name not like “PCNAME%” One of the fixes for inactive clients could be found here First part… Read More »Create an SCCM collection containing inactive clients excluding certain computers