There are many exciting new features in Windows 2016 but one particular feature I want to write about today is Production Checkpoints . I believe Checkpoints or snapshots as they were originally called were introduced in Windows Server 2008 and they are very convenient if you are working in a nonproduction environment or with none transactional servers like SQL or…

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Most Popular Linux distributions are supported in Hyper-V 2016. Below is the list of all the Linux distributions officially supported by Microsoft in Hyper-V in Server 2016. Red Hat SUSE OpenSUSE CentOS Ubuntu Debian Oracle Linux All features available for Windows guest OSs are available for Linux as well. Features like adding and removing virtual NIC and resizing and and…

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A few people using Windows 10 at the office complained that File Explorer was crashing when opening. I don’t know if this is a bug in file Explorer or it was something they installed that caused that behavior. If you are having that problem here is how I fixed it. Open Control Panel then under “view by” choose “large icons”…

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Don’t you hate getting those IT requests to replace toners in printers  at the office? yep! me too, if you have Nagios installed and want Nagios to let you know when toner’s are running low in those printers then there is a script to quickly do that. Download the script from this link I used version 3 for my printers.…

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Just in case you need to find the product key of your currently installed Windows 10 OS there is a quick PowerShell command you can run to do that. Open PowerShell, and type this command: (Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey that should display the product key

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If you have enabled the hyper-v  feature in Windows 10, but now you need to to disable it for some reason, you can do that following these two methods: Using PowerShell Open PowerShell with administrator privilege and type the following command:  Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-All Type “Y” to Reboot the computer. After rebooting the computer the hyper-v role should no…

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If you are installing the Hyper-V role feature on a virtualized ( Nested Virtualization )Windows 2016 server, and you get the following error: The validation process found problems on the server which you want to install features. The selected features are not compatible with the current configuration of your selected server. Click OK to select different features Then do this.…

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In this tutorial I will show you step by step how to enable the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2016. Windows Server 2016 was released in October 12, 2016 and it packs many new virtualization features. To learn about all the new features in Windows 2016 take a look at this section. These are some the features I find interesting…

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If the battery is draining quicker than normal on your Windows 10 laptop,  there is a quicker way to see what apps are causing the drain. to do that, click on the Start Menu and then click on Settings wrench: Then click on System: Then click on Battery then on Battery usage by app: Then you should be able to…

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Microsoft Edge is the new minimalist browser installed by default in Windows 10. I’m starting to use Edge over Chrome for some web browsing, and one of the things I’m really used to is to have a “home” button in my browser. Edge does not have a home button by default, but it only takes a few seconds to set…

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