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Liquidware CommandCTRL - What is it all about?

There are many monitoring solutions within the End User Computing space with many vendors competing for a slice of the “monitoring” pie. Liquidware’s CommandCTRL was announced as generally available on August 21, 2023. This release marked the product’s transition from a beta phase to full availability for users, signifying its readiness for wider deployment in end-user computing environments...

There are many monitoring solutions within the End User Computing space with many vendors competing for a slice of the “monitoring” pie. Liquidware’s CommandCTRL was announced as generally available on August 21, 2023. This release marked the product’s transition from a beta phase to full avai...

Checking prices for azure VMs with PowerShell

If you are trying to add VM pricing into any of your PowerShell scripts or modules, here are a couple of PowerShell functions that will help. PowerShell: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 Function Get-Az...

If you are trying to add VM pricing into any of your PowerShell scripts or modules, here are a couple of PowerShell functions that will help. PowerShell: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 5...

SMTP Properties will not load on server 2022 in IIS admin mmc snap-in

If you’re like me, you like to keep your lab up to date and Server 2022 is on the list for upgrade. I like to be able to relay mail out of my lab for alerting and some scripting. If you are getting the error, “MMC has detected an error in a snap-in. It is recommended that you shut down and restart MMC.” when you edit the properties of the SMTP Service; here is your solution: Stop SMTPSVC...

If you’re like me, you like to keep your lab up to date and Server 2022 is on the list for upgrade. I like to be able to relay mail out of my lab for alerting and some scripting. If you are getting the error, “MMC has detected an error in a snap-in. It is recommended that you shut down and res...

Checking VMs in Azure for Hybrid License

If you have on-prem windows server or desktop licenses, these licenses can be utilized in Azure to save yourself some money. Here is a link that explains about this in detail. Explore Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows VMs - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn If you’ve been creating VM’s manually you may have missed this tick box, if its terraform then this is the line you are looking ...

If you have on-prem windows server or desktop licenses, these licenses can be utilized in Azure to save yourself some money. Here is a link that explains about this in detail. Explore Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows VMs - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn If you’ve been creating VM’s...