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Powershell: Method not found: ‘System.Threading.Tasks.Task System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Run(System.Action)’

Hi,

when you tried to start powershell and the window opens and closes immediately.

Open a cmd and start powershell by calling powershell.exe
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MySQL, MariaDB: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

Hi,

I use a powershell script to write some data to a MySQL Database table.

The time the script is running increases every day and the point is reached were it runs in an timeout 🙁
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Windows: Disable DES and Triple DES (3DES)

Hi,

a measure to protect your Windows System against Sweet32 attacks is to disable the DES and Triple DES.

To do this, add 2 Registry Keys to the SCHANNEL Section of the registry.
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Powershell: Searching in arrays

Hi,

this is a really often requiered task in powershell. Here are some examples.
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Windows: Explorer.exe Server execution failed

Hello,

a customer had the problem that he couldn’t start the explorer. The explorer runs in an timeout and pops up an Errormessage: Server execution failed
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