My Windows 8 is having problems updating. After reboot, the first login results in the system rolling back the previous update. Here is the complete log: http://pastey.org/view/52c32b89 It is too big and I couldn't format it well here. But the section I believe to be relevant is: 2014-10-20 23:02:30:553 652 [...] read more
I have several ASP.NET Core websites on a Windows Server 2016 VM running in IIS/Kestrel (reverse proxy configuration). Some of these websites have some inactivity time during the day. Because of that, their Application Pool is terminated (and I would like to keep that to use fewer resources). The problem [...] read more
For my work I'd like to send an email to our alert-address when a scheduled task fails its execution. I want to do so with a scheduled task executing a powershell script, providing sender & recipient Mail-Address and the other necessary informations for the Powershell-Function Send-MailMessage as parameters. To achieve [...] read more
I am scheduling my installer in a sequence order just after another installer in a windows batch file. 2:04 am : Installer X scheduled. If exit code = 0 i.e success then my installer gets called. 2:06 am (approx) : The batch file calls my installer after seeing the exit [...] read more
I've got a couple of azure templates that deploy VMs with a DSC extension. This morning, I've started getting the following intermittent errors in deployments: > "message": "VM has reported a failure when processing extension > 'Microsoft.Powershell.DSC'. Error message: \"The DSC Extension failed to > install: A system shutdown is [...] read more
I have a Topshelf C# service that must restore adapter DNS settings when exiting. My stop/start methods work just fine and this code works: ManagementObject.InvokeMethod("SetDNSServerSearchOrder", DNS, null); Shutdown, however, is a problem, even with RequestAdditionalTime I log the following error: 2016-11-30 15:10:53,427 [7] TRACE MyDNSService - DNSService Shutdown command received. [...] read more
I recently took a good 512GB NVMe SSD out of a bad laptop. I wanted to use it as my game drive, so I wiped the hard drive and reformatted it with disk managment. I was having issues with the computer booting up, but went into the BIOS and changed [...] read more
Main part of the issue is self-explanatory, but there is a lot to add in for where this came from. Originally I was doing this because I (accidentally) Updated the Realtek audio drivers and it made many things worse - mic quality was awful (constant buzz) and audio quality is [...] read more
I have a 64-bit version of windows 8.1 pro running on a modern machine. virtualization is enable is BIOS. I cannot install Hyper-V. Windows goes through the well-know routine of 1)"adding features"; 2)"cannot add features" 3)"undoing changes". This seems like a common problem, but since its a Windows system issue, [...] read more