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September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Microsoft SQL Cloning Database to a Different DB Name

# User defined variables $sourceSqlServer='DEV-SQL01' $sourceDatabaseName='TEST_MSCRM' $sourceSaCredential=$(get-credential) $destinationSqlServer='DEV-SQL01' $destinationDatabaseName='Test_MSCRM' $destinationSaCredential=$(get-credential) function copyDatabase{ param( $sourceSqlServer, $sourceDatabaseName,…
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September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Microsoft Dynamics Audit History Data Missing After Org Migration

Issue: We have recently moved some Orgs from CRM version 8.x to 9.x, and audit…
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September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Domain Controller Vulnerability Scan for ZeroLogon VCE-2000-1472

function vce2020-1472{ # Source: # Original script has been modified to fix a couple of…
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September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Windows 10 Missing Icons Problem

This sometimes happen when a certain app takes over icons cache in Windows, such as…
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September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Hyper-V Logon Failure: the user has no been granted the requested logon type at this computer (0x80070569)

Issue: When performing a live migration of a guest VM, this error occurs: '...Failed to…
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September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Ubuntu/Lubuntu 20.04 GRUB_TIME=0 Defaults to 10 Seconds Instead of Zero

# GRUB configuration that still resulted in a count-down of 14 seconds GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT=0…
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September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Virtual Machine Queue: Assigning Processors to Network Interfaces

Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine Queuing is useful to maximize high-bandwidth network cards. However, configuring this…
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September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Use Windows Built-in Packet Tracer

Update: although this is a fun exercise to use Microsoft tools to analyze traffic, it…
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September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Error with Send-As

Symptoms: Recurring error in Event Log #61346 - An error occurred while checking for outgoing…
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September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

RDP Connection Error: CredSSP encryption oracle remediation

The Symptom: [Window Title]Remote Desktop Connection[Content]An authentication error has occurred.The function requested is not supportedRemote…
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September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Filezilla SFTP Connection ‘FATAL ERROR: Network error: Software caused connection abort’

Symptom: fzSftp started, protocol_version=9FATAL_ERROR: Network error: Software caused connection abortCould Not connect to server Path…
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September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Use the ‘Advanced Find’ Feature in Dynamics 365

Step 1: Login and click on Le Button Access your CRM portal with a valid…
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September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Use XrmToolBox for Microsoft Dynamics 365

The following is an illustration of the usage of this nice and free utility to…
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September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Process Watcher – Restart Stopped Services

# processWatcher.ps1 # User Input $computername=$env:computername $serviceName='remoteregistry' $desiredStatus='Running' $action={ param($serviceName) $erroractionpreference='stop' try{ start-service $serviceName return…
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September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Automating Scheduled Task Creation on Remote Computers

# createTaskScheduler.ps1 # What this script does: # 1. Ask user for valid Domain Admin…
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September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Quick Script to Mount Remote UNC Paths as Local Drive Letters

Simple Mount: # Mapping a drive $username='domain\testAdmin' $password='PASSWORD' $remotePath='\\UNCSERVER\SHAREPATH\Backup' $unavailableDriveLetters=(Get-Volume).DriveLetter|sort $availableDriveLetters=.{(65..90|%{[char]$_})|?{$_ -notin $unavailableDriveLetters}} [char]$firstAvailableDriveLetter=$availableDriveLetters[0] $command="net…
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September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Process Watcher

# processWatcher.ps1 # User Input $serviceName='MSCRMAsyncService$maintenance' # Semi-autogen variables $desiredStatus='Running' $environment=($env:computername).substring(0,$env:computername.IndexOf('-')) $reportServer="$environment-SQL01" function checkService($computername=$env:computername,$serviceName,$status='Running'){ #…
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September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Resolving CRM Error Upon Login

Symptom: Error Message when trying to login to CRM [caption id="attachment_7481" align="alignnone" width="237"] INVALID ACTION[/caption]…
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September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Hyper-V Virtual Machines Won’t Start on Restore or Live Migration

Symptom: Cluster resource of type 'Virtual Machine' in clustered role failed. The error code was…
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September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Microsoft Management Console Snap-in Shortcuts

Admin Snap-in Command Quality of Service Control Management ACSsnap.msc ADSI Edit ADSIedit.msc Authorization manager AZman.msc…
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