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Windows: Cannot activate Intels Smart Response Technology

Hi,

a customer of mine has bought a new PC (Fujitsu Esprimo P956 E94+) with an 256GB SSD and 5TB Harddisk and he wants to use the SSD as accelerater (Write/Read cache) for the 5TB Disk.

Newer Intel Chipsets support such a configuration. It is called Smart Response Technology.
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Powershell: md5sum and sha256sum Functions

Hi,

verifing of a file is often done by builting an MD5 or an sha256 hash over it.

Powershell has no “builtin” functions for this purposes.

So I wrote some 🙂
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Windows: Resolve Policy Registry Keys to Group Policy Editor Entries (and vice versa)

Hi,

in Windows, local group policies could applied through the Group Policy Editor or simply by setting the Registry Keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies and its equivalent in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Unfortunataly when just set the Registry Keys this isn’t shown in the GPO Editor and it’s hard to find the equivalent section and setting there.
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Windows: Find all Terminal/Remote Desktop Server Licenseserver

Hi,

to determine which Server provides the Terminal License Server Role in your Active Directory Forest use the following powershell script.

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Windows: Copy and backup open files with a batchfile

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sometimes you want to copy files which are exclusively locked by other processes.
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