My computer recently updated to Windows 10 version 1809 and as with all previous major updates of Windows 10, this wipes out the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). However, unlike previous versions, Microsoft has now made RSAT available via Features on Demand and while you're supposed to be able to install them …

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I recently received an email from someone who attended one of my presentations asking if I had a blog article on using PowerShell to compact and optimize VHD files. Since I didn't have a blog article on that subject, I decided to create one. The process itself is fairly simple. The examples shown in this blog article …

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I recently ran into a problem with DSC on Windows 10 when trying to create MOF files with DSC configurations that work on other operating systems. An error is generated when the friendly name for a DSC resource contains a dash and that friendly name is specified as a dependency for another resource. I know that only …

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I recently discovered that Windows 10 adds a DelayedAutoStart property to the Win32_Service WMI Class: 1Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Service -Filter "Name = 'MapsBroker'" | Format-List -Property * I've verified that this property does not exist on prior operating systems such as Windows 8.1 even …

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So you've installed Windows 10 enterprise edition only to find applications that you would consider to be consumer type apps such as Bing Finance, News, and Sports which is not what you would normally expect to find in an enterprise edition operating system version: You can obtain a list of these app packages for the …

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