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Get OS Version from Windows Install medium

Posted on 2018/04/08 by maoeh

Find the wim file located in :\sources on the install medium then run a command shell as administrator. dism /get-wiminfo /wimFile:<Drive>:\sources\<Wimfile> As a result you should get something like this: dism /get-wiminfo /wimfile:Y:\sources\boot.wim Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: … Continue reading →

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Change WordPress file rights on Synology

Posted on 2017/03/01 by maoeh

If you copied a wordpress file structure to your NAS you possible endup in wrong file rights. Open Telnet session and change to superuser mode . After that, change owner and rights so WordPress is working without errors. su sudo cd … Continue reading →

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German date is not accepted in Powershell

Posted on 2017/03/01 by maoeh

Problem: Systems or commands  working with english datetime do not accept german date formats. Converting them directly to Datetime ist not possible.  “System.DateTime”. Error: “String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.” Example: Solution: Convert the date to an english datetime … Continue reading →

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Permalink dos not change in WordPress

Posted on 2017/03/01 by maoeh

I changed to a new Synology NAS from DSM 5.2 to 6.1. After migrating my WordPress site Permalinks worked only in default mode. On my old NAS i used to have something like “/2013/10/file-open-security-warning/”  . Problem: The permalink update is not running … Continue reading →

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Cleanup winsxs folder

Posted on 2016/11/23 by maoeh

Do not delete files manually from winsxs folder . Instead use the following command to remove old servicepack files. dism.exe /online /cleanup-Image /spsuperseded

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Check NTP on windows computer

Posted on 2016/10/06 by maoeh

Start a command  shell and use the following command.  Here ch.pool.ntp.org is an array of ntp servers delivered by dns query. w32tm /stripchart /computer:ch.pool.ntp.org /dataonly /samples:5 You should get a response like  this. In this sample the first few request are … Continue reading →

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SCOM, find stucked agents

Posted on 2016/10/06 by maoeh

Some times agents start to stop collecting data without stopping completely . this is often when client are overloaded or management servers are for a while unavailable. In my case most times disk space counters stopped working as on of the first … Continue reading →

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