Howto do some things in Windows
Hi,
since Windows 8 respectively Server 2012 the policy to install Updates at a specific date and time has no affect.
Microsoft changed the behaviour for installing updates. The schedule for a installation and restart of updates is just defined by the deadline for Updates on the WSUS Server.
Continue reading Windows: No installation of Windows Updates at a policy defined scheduled date and time
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if you tried to save a word or excel document as another format you got an error. For example, if you want to convert a CSV File to a Excel workbook and save it in Excel 95/97/2003 format.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | [reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.InterOp.Excel")$oExcel = New-Object -ComObject "Excel.Application"$sCSVFile="D:\temp\ImportFile.csv"$oExcel.Visible = $true$oCSVWorkbook=$oExcel.Workbooks.Add()$oExcel.Workbooks.OpenText($sCSVFile)$oCSVWorkbook.SaveAs("D:\temp\test.xls",[Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlFileFormat]::xlExcel9795)Exception calling "SaveAs" with "1" argument(s): "SaveAs method of Workbook class failed"At D:\test\CSV2Excel.ps1:29 char:20+ $xl_workbook.SaveAs <<<< ("D:\Temp\test.xls") + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation |
Continue reading Powershell: Error while calling the SaveAs Method of some Office Applications
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you have closed the command shell window in your Session or you want to start an additional cmd shell or program?
At the console start the task Manager by pressing Alt-Ctrl-Del respectively if you are in a Remote Desktop Session Press Alt-Ctrl-End.
New Task
Continue reading Windows: Hyper-V and Server Core start new cmd.exe
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some usefull tools like telnet.exe are disabled by default in Windows Vista and later version. You can enable this and other features by command line using dism.
dism called with the get-features parameter lists all available features and its current state.
Note: Featurenames are case sensitive.
C:\>dism /online /Get-Features
.....
Feature Name : TelnetServer
State : Disabled
Feature Name : TelnetClient
State : Enabled
......and the Enable-Feature option install them
Continue reading Windows: Enable or disable Features from command line
Hi,
today I will explain the possiblity of the ntfs filesystem to create symbolic- and hardlinks.
Whats the difference? A symbolic link (File) or junction point (Directory) is a pointer to an existing file or directory. These works across volumes.
A hardlink is a file or directory which is referenced by more then one path on the same volume.
An example. The explorer.exe in c:\windows. The most Windows system files are hardlinks. These files have two of them. One in the Windows, respective system32 folder and one to its current version in the component store winsxs.
[C:\]fsutil hardlink list c:\Windows\explorer.exe
\Windows\explorer.exe
\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-explorer_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7601.17567_none_afa79dc39081d0ba\explorer.exethis means the file is stored once and there are two references in the filesystem to it.
With the dir command you cannot identify an hardlink. The only way is fsutil.exe.
Creating an hardlink is very easy. Continue reading Windows: NTFS symbolic links and hard links