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Capture a Network Trace using CMD
In this post, you can see an easy way to capture a network trace on a Windows machine. You just need to type the following command. Open an elevated command prompt and run : C:\Windows\system32>netsh trace start persisten=yes capture=yes...
Azure VM CPU Per Series
In this post, you can see the categories of virtual machines you can open in the cloud, as well as the CPU type of each: A - SERIES (A0 -A7) CPU Intel Xeon® E5-2630 v3 @ 2.4 GHz Cores / Threads : 8 / 16, L3 Cache : 20 MB, Data Width : 64 bit A - SERIES (A8-A11)...
Use the following Commands if Windows Kick You Out Of System (RDP)
To access a VM from a Remote Server you must follow the next steps : 1. Download psexec 2. Run CMD with Administrative privileges 3. Execute the following command : psexec \\ 10.x.x.x cmd -u "USERNAME" -p "PASSWORD" 4. If successfully connected then it shows the...
500.50 Error URL Rewrite {assembly name} {assembly version}
DLLs once deployed in GAC (normally located at c:\windows\assembly) can’t be viewed or used as a normal DLL file. If we need to get the DLL file from the GAC you must follow the following steps. Run regsvr32 /u %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\\shfusion.dll Open...
Add Azure Reverse DNS Record to your Cloud Service
One important thing you must do for an SMTP Server is to add reverse DNS record on your Cloud Service. To do this, first of all, you must install Azure Powershell, WindowsAzurePowershell. Now, you must execute the following commands in PowerShell: Azure Service...
List Heap Tables
Heap table are the tables which they don’t have any clustered index. : -- List all heap tables SELECT SCH.name + '.' + TBL.name AS TableName FROM sys.tables AS TBL INNER JOIN sys.schemas AS SCH ON TBL.schema_id = SCH.schema_id INNER JOIN sys.indexes AS IDX ON...
Check remaining days of Remote Desktop Services
By using the following command you can check the remaining days of RDS. Open CMD, and run the following command : wmic /namespace:\\root\CIMV2\TerminalServices PATH Win32_TerminalServiceSetting WHERE (__CLASS !="") CALL GetGracePeriodDays
Storage Pools For SQL Server
By following the next steps you are able to create storage pools for a SQL Server installation. Storage Pool Best Practices Column Size = Number Of Disks In The Storage Pool, example 2 Disks = Column Size 2 Interleave = For OLTP Best is 256KB , For TSQL Best is 64K...
How to merge multiple vmdk’s into single vmdk
In order to merge split vmdk files into one, you need to use the vmware-vdiskmanager command. However, this is only available if you have VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation installed. VMware Player doesn’t have this. There is a utility which it can be downloaded...
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George Grammatikos
George Chrysovalantis Grammatikos is an Azure Cloud Architect. He has more than 10 years experience in different technologies like BI & SQL Server Professional level solutions, Azure technologies, networking, security etc. He writes technical blogs for his blog “cloudopszone.com”, MS wiki articles and participates in discussions on Microsoft Wiki and other technical blogs.

