Updates are being distributed to Windows 10 via peer-to-peer methods, in addition to cloud-to-PC. This will be essential to handle the big build files, 4 gigabyte plus, at many sites.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-delivery-optimization
Categories:
Windows Installer, Updates, Patching
Windows OS-Level Issues
This one is from the amazing Rick Boatright. I saw the ancestor of this thirty-plus years ago in Unix System V, had no idea it had gotten so useful in Microsoft-land. The gist of it is:
- You have a batch file, and want to access something involving a UNC path, something like this:
\\SERVER_NAME\share_name\dir1\dir2
- Default logic often involves storage of current location into a variable, CD, resumption of previous, blah, blah, blah.
- But we can do it in one command:
pushd \\SERVER_NAME\share_name\dir1\dir2
This does multiple things:
- First, it creates a temporary drive letter for the server and share name. It chooses an available drive letter.
- Secondly, without any further ado, it changes the current working directory of the shell (of the script) to the very location you pointed at.
- So, if you did the pushd above, and if Z: were available, your current working directory suddenly becomes:
Z:\dir1\dir2
where Z: is mapped to \\SERVER_NAME\share_name
!!!
- Then when you’re done with it, just put in
popd
, and Z: goes away and you’re back to the current working directory you had beforehand!
Categories:
Scripting
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Music Production
Tools
Categories:
Windows Installer, Updates, Patching
A good thing to do, is to do cleanup/improvement steps, and then restart related services:
VSS Writer |
Service, Short ID & Binary |
Service, Long Name |
ASR Writer |
VSS |
Volume Shadow Copy |
BITS Writer |
BITS |
Background Intelligent Transfer Service |
COM+ REGDB Writer |
VSS |
Volume Shadow Copy |
DFS Replication Service Writer |
DFSR |
DFS Replication |
DHCP Jet Writer |
DHCPServer |
DHCP Server |
FRS Writer |
NtFrs |
File Replication |
FRSM Writer |
srmsvc |
File Server Resource Manager |
IIS Config Writer |
AppHostSvc |
Application Host Helper Service |
IIS Metabase Writer |
IISADMIN |
IIS Admin Service |
Microsoft Exchange Replica Writer |
MSExchangeRepl |
Microsoft Exchange Replication Service |
Microsoft Exchange Writer |
MSExchangeIS |
Microsoft Exchange Information Store |
Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer |
vmms |
Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management |
MSMQ Writer |
MSMQ |
Message Queuing |
MSSearch Service Writer |
WSearch |
Windows Search |
NTDS |
NTDS |
Active Directory Domain Services |
O_Search VSS Writer |
OSearch |
Office SharePoint Server Search |
O_Search 14 VSS Writer |
OSearch14 |
SharePoint Server Search 14 |
Registry Writer |
VSS |
Volume Shadow Copy |
Shadow Copy Optimization Writer |
VSS |
Volume Shadow Copy |
SMS Writer |
SMSSITEVSSWRITER |
SMS_SITE_VSS_WRITER |
SPSearch VSS Writer |
SPSearch |
Windows SharePoint Services Search |
SPSearch4 VSS Writer |
SPSearch4 |
SharePoint Foundation Search V4 |
SqlServerWriter |
SQLWriter |
SQL Server VSS Writer |
System Writer |
CryptSvc |
Cryptographic Services |
TermServLicensing |
TermServLicensing |
Remote Desktop Licensing |
WIDWriter |
WIDWriter |
Windows Internal Database VSS Writer |
WINS Jet Writer |
WINS |
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) |
WMI Writer |
Winmgmt |
Windows Management Instrumentation |
Categories:
VSS
If you see that Windows built-in search components (any of several, including the Indexer, Cortana, etc.) are using a lot of your disk bandwidth, run this in an administrative Powershell:
Add-AppxPackage -Path “C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy\Appxmanifest.xml” -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
It appears to reset or reload Cortana or a big chunk of it, and probably disable “Development Mode” too. One web reference stated that the above has to be run in a newly created local admin profile to work.
Also, if you’re in a former (or, God forbid, current) SBS environment, make sure the SBS client is removed, and make sure GPO isn’t automatically reinstalling it.
Categories:
Windows OS-Level Issues
Performance
Command References
article #1301, updated 2000 days ago
This page will expand. For now:
https://ss64.com
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References
This is easily done in Local Group Policy, on the machine with the RDS licensing server:
Computer Configuration/
Administrative Templates/
Windows Components/
Remote Desktop Services/
Remote Desktop Session Host/
Licensing
Categories:
Windows OS-Level Issues
Remote Access, Remote Desktop, Terminal Server
There is a setting in Windows Group Policy which will force lockscreen / locked screensaver after a machine considers itself inactive for a specified amount of time:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/interactive-logon-machine-inactivity-limit
This overrides all other related (e.g. screen saver) settings and PC-local settings. It’s located here in group policy:
Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options
and while creating/linking group policy on a server:
Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options
Categories:
Group Policy
Windows OS-Level Issues
Have not tested these at all yet. But am rather glad someone has started working on them.
Repair / Restore Default Group Policy
Upgrade Group Policy
Fix Corrupt Local Group Policy
Categories:
Group Policy