Author: Davoud Teimouri

When you are working on a remote computer and you want shutdown it or you want to shut down it remotely. May be you face with this error when you are trying run shutdown command: A system shutdown is in progress.(1115) First, you need to try to stopping winlogon.exe process remotely, you can use PSKILL tool to kill the process and allow the computer to continue shutdown process. pskill \Computer-Name winlogon Sometimes, the issue is related to “Windows Modules Installer” service. When you open services.msc, the service is in stopping status. You can run the below command: pskill \Computer-Name TrustedInstaller I hope, this post help you to resolve same issues on your servers or remote computers.

When you have updated your ESXi to newer version or patch it but you have some problems with new ESXi, you can revert to previous version easily: Note: Back up your configuration data before making any changes. Further Reading VMware Horizon View Connection (Session) Duration Report vSphere 7 Upgrade Series – Part 2: Hardware Compatibility vSphere 7 Upgrade Series – Part 1: Define Upgrade Path

It’s possible to reset your Windows Sever 2008 / R2 Domain Controller administrator password using your installation CD. Restart your Windows server 2008 DC with the installation CD Choose your language and click next Select your partition and installation version and click Next Click on Command Line Prompt Change directory to the access the system 32 directory. Then your original C:drive is changed to D: or E: depending on the number of drive and partitions you have on that system. Rename the file Utilman.exe to Utilman.exe.bak using the comm and Copy Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.bak.   Using Command Move Cmd.exe Utilman.exe to move CMD.exe file into Utilman.exe. Press O or Y to accept after that restart your Computer normaly   At the user logon screen, press a combination of Windows KEY+U, then the CMD.exe will appear. Type net user “Username””new password”;   Then your system Admin Password is reset. Please don’t forget to rename back Utilman. Exe ->Cmd.exe and Utilman.exe.bak-> Utilman.exe after getting back access.

We have a support team that they need to our assistance about adding their accounts to local administrators group of some computers. My colleagues have to open “Computer Management”, connect to remote computer and add the user to the group. I don’t like this process. The below script helps my colleagues, maybe useful for you as well: Further Reading Run ESXi Commands Via PowerShell And SSH Windows 7 USB Sound Problem On PCoIP How to change the listening port for Remote Desktop

I have to using VPN in my office for connecting to some services and add some routes to my Ubuntu routing table. But the routes will be removed after reboot. So I have to add them manually again. I googled that and find a solution for adding the routes when interface is coming up. You need to create a script under “/etc/network/if-up.d/”, for creating the script, follow the below steps: 1. Create script file by using “cat” command or other text editors: #cat > your-script-file #!/bin/bash route add -net x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x gw x.x.x.x route … route … CTRL+D (For saving file) Make the script file as an executable script file: #chmod +x your-script-file Then restart networking service or unplug and plug your network and run “route -n”. If the routes network are available, then the routes will be added to routing table. Note: You script should be saved without “.sh”. I tested it on Ubuntu 14.04. Run the below command for test: run-parts –test /etc/network/if-up.d

This script can help you to clean your users profiles without installing any third party application, you can put it as shutdown or startup script: If you want to run it as scheduled task, you need to run that via batch file with a local administrator account. This batch file create a local administrator account, run the previous script under the user’s privilege and then remove the user. The scripts tested under Windows XP and Windows 7. Further Reading Veeam Backup & Replication – Re-IP Rule on Linux VM Recommended Settings on Windows 10 for VDI