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Check the references at the end […] Continue Reading How to fix error 0x80073701 when adding roles or features to Windows October 10, 2023 October 10, 2023 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on How to fix error 0x80073701 when adding roles or features to Windows Error code 0x80073701 translates to ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING. This is sometimes encountered in Windows when you attempt to add a role or feature and Windows registry considers a specific package to be installed, yet the manifest is not present on the system. Here is how you can fix it. Example script usage: As I understand it, the […] Continue Reading Convert full print driver to basic print driver September 15, 2023 September 15, 2023 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on Convert full print driver to basic print driver Consider the scenario where you want to deploy a basic print driver to your clients but the vendor only offers a full package installer for a given printer. One possible solution is to install the full driver on a reference system, then export the print driver for installing it on other clients. Here is how […] Continue Reading Installing Netbox on Ubuntu April 5, 2023 April 10, 2023 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on Installing Netbox on Ubuntu Netbox Installation (bobcares.com) Netbox installation will will allow us to automate most networking operations. Its an open-source, web-based Infrastructure Resource Modeling (IRM) application. At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our Server Management Service. Check out how our Support team assisted a customer with installing and configuring NetBox on Ubuntu […] Continue Reading Manually create Windows recovery partition before OS partition April 1, 2023 April 1, 2023 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on Manually create Windows recovery partition before OS partition With the newer Microsoft OS’s (both workstations and servers), Microsoft decided to start building a recovery partition AFTER the OS partition. This means if you need to increase the size of the OS partition, you must do some work first to get rid of the recovery partition before you can extend the OS partition size. […] Continue Reading Updating a standalone ESXi host March 2, 2023 March 2, 2023 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on Updating a standalone ESXi host Update April 15th 2020: If you are doing a full upgrade, make sure you specify the proper profile name using: esxcli software profile update -d /path/to/depot.zip -p profile name You can list the profiles included in the depot with: esxcli software sources profile list -d /path/to/depot.zip I’m running a fully nested homelab on a single SuperMicro server. […] Continue Reading Remotely Update DNS Configuration December 12, 2022 December 13, 2022 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on Remotely Update DNS Configuration Here is a script you can use from PowerShell to change DNS configuration on remote systems. It takes a CSV file for input of which systems to change and which DNS servers to set. This assumes the required NIC that needs to be updated is the only NIC that has an IP address and DNS […] Continue Reading Convert enterprise CA cert to PEM format November 4, 2022 November 4, 2022 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on Convert enterprise CA cert to PEM format Sometimes, you may need to convert a certificate to PEM format for use on *nix or non-Windows platforms. Here is a way to do this using PowerShell without any third party software. First, we need to get a cert loaded into a variable. This cert can be pulled from a PFX or loaded directly from […] Continue Reading Troubleshooting Hardware Inventory in MECM August 29, 2022 August 29, 2022 Philip Loftin Leave a Comment on Troubleshooting Hardware Inventory in MECM Troubleshooting the Client Check if BITS is running The first step in troubleshooting hardware inventory on a client is to verify the BITS service is running. BITS or Background Intelligent Transfer Service is a Windows service used to transfer data whenever there is bandwidth that is not being used by other applications. BITS also supports […] Continue Reading How to choose to the best Wi-Fi channel for your router January 10, 2022 April 8, 2022 Philip Loftin 1 Comment on How to choose to the best Wi-Fi channel for your router This week at church, we began testing a new Wi-Fi in-ear monitor system that uses your personal mobile device connected to a Mac over a dedicated Wi-Fi connection. Initial testing by myself was pretty good. The quality was good and the connection was clean. But then on the first practice, we added another user to […] Continue Reading Posts navigation Older posts Search for: Recent Posts Run PowerShell script as a service How to fix error 0x80073701 when adding roles or features to Windows Convert full print driver to basic print driver Installing Netbox on Ubuntu Manually create Windows recovery partition before OS partition Recent Comments Philip Loftin on How to choose to the best Wi-Fi channel for your router Archives October 2023 September 2023 April 2023 March 2023 December 2022 November 2022 August 2022 January 2022 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 March 2021 Categories Active Directory Dell Endpoint Manager Group Policy IPAM Microsoft Networking PowerShell Remote Desktop Services Scripting Ubuntu Uncategorized VMware Wi-Fi Windows Meta Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.org | Theme: News Portal by Mystery Themes...