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Windows: Robocopy quits with access denied Error 5 even if you have modify permissions

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let us assume that you have write permissions (not full control) to a network share, you start robocopy without copying ACL and Attributes (/COPY:D, /DCOPY:D) and nevertheless robocopy exits with ACCESS DENIED. robocopy requests a lot of permissions:

Desired Access: Generic Read, Write Data/Add File, Write EA, Write Attributes, Delete, Write DAC
Disposition: OpenIf
Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Open For Backup
Attributes: DA
ShareMode: None
AllocationSize: 0


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Powershell: Profile locations

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if you want to customize your environment powershell has ability to load or execute some scripts at startup.

There are 4 files where you can define functions, aliases … The AllHosts variables does not mean Computers. Allhosts is relating to Programs with has an Interface to Powershell, for example Powershell itself, Powershell ISE and so on. While currenthost means a specfic program. The currenthost variables differ from Powershell to Powershell ISE.
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Windows: Installation of msxml4 failed. Could not register type library for msxml4.dll

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short post after Summer vacation 🙂 A customer had the problem that he couldn’t install msxml4 sp3.

During installation the setup could not register type library C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msxml4.dll.
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Windows: Enable generation of 8.3 Names

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in newer Versios of Windows the generation of the DOS Style 8.3 names is only enabled for Drive C: for all other volumes it is disabled by default.
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Hyper-V: Convert a VMware Virtual Machine files to Hyper-V

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this post describes how to convert VMware vmdk files to Hyper-V’s vhdx format.

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