IT-Recovery Playlist

Being in a situation where you need to recover IT components or even a whole IT infrastructure after a disastrous event can be stressful. It would help if you stayed concentrated while dealing with the constant status requests by the management.

In such a situation, it can help to isolate your mind by listening to music. Music that helps you focus your thoughts, anger, and feelings in such a moment.

Create Test Users in Active Directory

You sometimes need some (or even many) test user objects in Active Directory.

This script helps you create any number of test users in your Active Directory domain, which you can easily enable for on-premises or remote mailboxes afterward.

Reclaiming missing NTFS disk space from VSS

Recently I was facing an issue where Windows Server 2012 R2 reported remaining 22% of free disk space of one of the Exchange Server data volumes. This post is about reclaiming disk space wast by VSS.

Windows 10 Start Menu not responding

You might encounter a situation where you log on to your Windows 10 client and the Start menu is unresponsive and the taskbar remains empty. The following two actions help to recover from the situation.

Start Scheduled Tasks remotely

When you maintain a number of servers which require to trigger the same scheduled task manually, you can simply the process by triggering the scheduled task remotely.