Powershell: Accessing Applications and Services Logs

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for showing or exporting the System, Application and Security Log the command let Get-EventLog is the first choice.
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Windows: Enable NTP Client and Server

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the Windows Time service includes both an NTP Client and an NTP Server. The NTP Server is disabled by default.
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Windows 10: Windows Update search returns Error 0x8024500c or did not find any updates

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the Error 0x8024500c often occurs at Windows 10 in managed environments, which means the Windows Updates are delivered by WSUS or SCCM and no internet connection is available or it is not allowed to connect directly to Microsofts Windows Update.

In this case usually the policies (no internet connect and DualScan disabled)
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VMware PowerCli: Eject CD/DVD Media from VMs

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when you have to eject or unmount DVD iso from your VMs, may be the iso files resists on datastore you want to remove, these one liner should help you.
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VMware ESXi: Set an alternate BIOS for a VM

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VMware supports an alternate BIOS for a VM. Reasons for this can be that you want to set an alternate Manufacturer/Vendor and Model/Product String.
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