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Windows: Convert formatted text in clipboard to plain text

Hi,

when you often have to copy some text between HTML/Browser pages, browser based content management systems, Office Documents and terminal emulators you know the problem: Text from browsers and office documents also contains format attributes like font size, fonts etc. which causes an unexpected layout or format.

For example, if you copy a text from LibreOffice to wordpress(Yes of course, you could paste the test  into wordpress by using the “paste plain text” toolbar buttons. But this is one step more and I prefer Ctrl V Ctrl C for copy and paste).
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Windows: Only register primary IP Address in DNS

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if you want to change the IP Address (new Address is in the same subnet) a of Windows Server by a minimal downtime for the users?

In pure Active Directory domains this is not a problem because the server itself updates its A Record at the DNS server and the Active Directory replicates the entry immediately.
In large environments with a heterogeneous DNS structure the TTL of the DNS entry respectively of the DNS zone becomes very important, because the entry is cached for this time by the requesting server, so the time when the new DNS A record reaches  each DNS Server can take some time.
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Windows: Howto terminate a RDP Session remotely by command line

Hi,

when a RDP sessions hangs there are multiple ways to destroy it. The command line way:

Identify the RDP Session ID. Use quser


C:\>quser /Server:YourWindowsServer
 USERNAME              SESSIONNAME        ID  STATE   IDLE TIME  LOGON TIME
 winuser               rdp-tcp#6           2  Active          3  24.09.2014 22:26

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Windows: Automatic Update does not install updates

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a Customer calls me that his Windows Clients won’t install some Updates and the boxes does not submit their update states to the WSUS Server which runs at Windows Update Server 3 SP2.

At the clients I checked the Windows Update Logfile C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log and found many errors like these:

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Linux: Mount a Windows share with kerberos authentication

Hi,

in some secure environments only kerberos authentication is allowed to connect to a Windows file share.

This example demonstrate the procedure on how to mount a share on a Debian 7 (Wheezy)  Linux. Other distributions should provide a simliar way.

First of all install the necessary pakets.

michael@debdev:~# apt-get install krb5-user krb5-config cifs-utils keyutils

After installing the packages the Kerberos configuration wizard starts.
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