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September 21, 2017 7:04 am By Travis Leave a Comment

How to Create Symbolic Links on Windows

What are Symbolic Links? Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista all support symbolic links, also known as symlinks, that point to a file or folder on your system. Symbolic links are basically advanced shortcuts. Create a symbolic link to an individual file or folder, and that link will appear to be the same as the file or folder to Windows—even though it’s just a link pointing at the file or folder. For example, let’s say you have a program that needs its files at C:\Program. You’d really like to … [Read more...]

September 21, 2017 7:00 am By Travis Leave a Comment

Windows Performance Monitor Disk Counters Explained

Why the Performance Monitor? When it comes to the subject of disk performance in Windows, the majority of questions can be quickly answered by Performance Monitor alone. Performance Monitor is very low overhead, does a great job with averages and can also capture and store data over long periods of time. It is an excellent choice to record a performance baseline and to troubleshoot. For short in this text, we are going to call the Windows Performance Monitor by its nickname: Perfmon. The … [Read more...]

September 11, 2017 5:56 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

Filter Windows Event Viewer Security Logs for Remote Desktop Logon Type 10

There is no available field to filter the Windows Event VIewer Security Logs for users logging in with RDP (logon type 10). Use the XML tab and check the box Edit query manually. <QueryList> <Query Id="0" Path="Security"> <Select Path="Security"> *[ EventData[Data[@Name='LogonType']='10'] and System[(EventID='4624')] ] </Select> </Query> </QueryList> If you would like to include a condition for the user account as well as … [Read more...]

September 9, 2017 12:44 pm By Travis 1 Comment

Convert x509/PEM SSL Certificate to PFX/P12 from Linux to Windows

Often when you're working in heterogeneous environments you will be needing to convert the standard Linux format x509/PEM SSL certificate files to the Windows native PFX/p12 format, or vise-versa. The following OpenSSL commands are able to do just about every type of certificate conversion imaginable. DID YOU KNOW? "pem", "cer", and "crt" are all the same certificate formats called x509. The only difference is cosmetic via different extensions. A full certificate chain = public certificate + … [Read more...]

January 11, 2017 3:48 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

Activate Windows and Office with KMSpico

What is KMSpico? KMSpico is the best activator for practically all versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. In order to activate the desired product, you simply select it in a drop-down box then click a goofy looking red button. Once you get a response back from the application you will need to reboot then you should verify successful activation. Windows 10 activation is now supported. Home, Pro and Enterprise versions are fully supported. Activates: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows … [Read more...]

December 18, 2016 9:45 am By Travis Leave a Comment

SQL Server Disk Partition Alignment

The default alignment of 31.5Kb on Windows Server 2003 can lead to enormous I/O performance problems with SQL Server (see Are your disk partition offsets, RAID stripe sizes, and NTFS allocation units set correctly?). I thought it would be useful to do a quick blog post showing how to use the diskpart and wmic tools. Google them for lots of info from the Microsoft site – but be careful not to play around with any of the destructive options on productions systems. The options I'm using below will … [Read more...]