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How To Know Which Process is Using a File or Folder in Windows

Resource Monitor

For Windows 7 and above, you can use the built-in Resource Monitor.

Open Resource Monitor, which can be found

By searching for resmon.exe in the start menu, or
As a button on the Performance tab in your Task Manager

From CPU tab, use the search field in the Associated Handles section

When you’ve found the handle, you can identify the process by looking at the Image and/or PID column. You can then close the application if you are able to do that, or just right-click the row and you’ll get the option of killing the process (End Process) right there.

By ncol on November 18, 2021 · Comments Off

Kill a process using PowerShell

Open PowerShell. If required, run it as Administrator.

Type the command Get-Process to see the list of running processes

To kill a process by its name, execute the following cmdlet: Stop-Process -Name “ProcessName” -Force

To kill a process by its PID, run the command: Stop-Process -ID PID -Force

By ncol on November 18, 2021 · Comments Off

Enable the Password Reset Option in Exchange Server 2016

The easiest way to change the password of a user’s Microsoft Exchange mailbox is to use the Active Directory User and Computer (ADUC) console. You can also reset the password from the Exchange Admin Center, but this option is disabled by default. This article describes how to enable the password reset option in the Exchange Admin Center in Microsoft Exchange Server 2016.

1. Log in to exchange server with your admin credentials.

2. Open PowerShell with administrative privileges and execute the following three commands.

Add-pssnapin microsoft*

Install-CannedRbacRoles

Install-CannedRbacRoleAssignments

3. Log in to the Exchange Admin Center and click on Permissions.

Right-click ‘Organization Management’ and then click Edit.

Click the ‘+’ sign on the roles section. Select ‘Reset Password’ and then click Add. Click OK and then click Save.

4. Log out from the Exchange Admin Center.

5. When you log in again to the Exchange Admin Center and open any existing user mailbox properties, you should see the reset password option.

By ncol on September 8, 2021 · Comments Off

How to stop a Windows Backup job

C:\Users\Administrator.LOCAL>wbadmin stop job
wbadmin 1.0 – Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Are you sure you want to stop the current operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No y

The backup operation ended before completing.

C:\Users\Administrator.LOCAL>

By ncol on June 29, 2021 · Comments Off

You’ll need an app to run Microsoft Edge

Go here and download and install Edge.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/business/download

By ncol on April 15, 2021 · Comments Off

Exchange 2010/2013/2016: Starting Exchange Services with a simple command

As an Exchange Admin, you might be looking after 1 server or several hundred.

Sometime after a reboot you might notice that some of the services don’t start. It is a daunting task to go manually start them all 1 at a time.

A simple way is to run the following command from an elevated PowerShell Window:

Get-Service *Exchange* | Start-Service

Some services like the Transport and Unified Messaging Services take a bit longer to start but the window will echo the starting of all services.

By ncol on March 15, 2021 · Comments Off

Remote Desktop (RDP) shortcut keys

Shortcut key	Description
CTRL+ALT+HOME	Activates the connection bar.
CTRL+ALT+BREAK or one of these shortcuts: CTRL+ALT+PAUSE CTRL+ALT+PRTSCN CTRL+ALT+FN+SCRLK	Switches the client between full-screen mode and window mode. If these shortcuts don’t work, or the keys aren’t available, you can try the following alternative: Press CTRL+ALT+HOME, TAB, TAB, TAB, TAB, TAB, ENTER. This activates the connection bar, and then presses the Restore down button.
CTRL+ALT+END	Brings up the Windows Security dialog box for the Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) (provides the same functionality as pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL on the local computer).

The following table describes the standard Windows shortcut keys and their equivalent Remote Desktop shortcuts that are different. (For example, Ctrl+Z is generally the ‘Undo’ shortcut on both standard Windows and Remote Desktop.)

Table 2
Windows shortcut	Remote Desktop shortcut	Description
ALT+TAB	ALT+PAGE UP	Switches between programs from left to right.
ALT+SHIFT+TAB	ALT+PAGE DOWN	Switches between programs from right to left.
	ALT+INSERT	Cycles through the programs in the order they were started.
Windows key or CTRL+ESC	ALT+HOME	Displays the Start menu.
ALT+SPACE BAR	ALT+DELETE	Displays the system menu.
ALT+PRINT SCREEN	CTRL+ALT+MINUS SIGN (-)	Places a snapshot of the active window, within the client, on the clipboard.
PRINT SCREEN	CTRL+ALT+PLUS SIGN (+)	Places a snapshot of the entire client windows area on the clipboard .

By ncol on October 29, 2020 · Comments Off

Who is logged on to Windows RDP?

Open a command prompt and execute: query user /server:server-a

By ncol on October 29, 2020 · Comments Off

Set time on Windows AD Server to NTP

Configure the NTP Server on Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016 or 2019

On your Windows Server hit the Windows Button and type:

PowerShell and right-click it and select Run as Administrator

Type the following commands

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:pool.ntp.org /syncfromflags:MANUAL

Stop-Service w32time

Start-Service w32time

Of course, you can take any NTP Server that you want. Now verify if the time-server was set correctly on your Server by typing: w32tm /query /status

By ncol on October 2, 2020 · Comments Off

Windows backup drive is full

Windows does not manage backup space well. To manage the retained backups and not fill up the disk, run the following command from an elevated command prompt:

WBADMIN DELETE BACKUP -backuptarget:F: -keepVersions:30

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To get the versions:

WBADMIN get versions

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To delete the oldest backup version:

WBADMIN DELETE BACKUP -deleteoldest

By ncol on October 2, 2020 · Comments Off

Robocopy makes folders disappear

Robocopy may set the new directory to hidden, as that it copies the system attribute of the root folder of the drive over to the new folder. You can prevent the new directory from becoming hidden by adding the /A-:SH option/flag/switch to your robocopy command.

By ncol on August 11, 2020 · Comments Off

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