Tips & Tricks
How to Use WMIC
In yesterday’s Why WMIC is Useful!, I talked about using Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) to troubleshoot WMI issues. I need to user WMIC to troubleshoot a x86 problem on a x64 computer. You might think that Wbemtest would be the tool to use but...
Why WMIC is Useful!
WMIC or WMI command line, is another WMI tool found on every computer. This one, similar to wbemtest, as it allows you to query WMI but from a command line. This mean that you can use it within a batch file or other command line software to collect results from WMI....
How Do You Wipe Clean a Hard Drive?
Similar to many IT professionals, I often receive requests from friends and family about how to Wipe Clean a Hard Drive of sensitive data from old computers, USB, Floppy disk, etc. Usually what I suggest, and do myself, is to pull the hard drive out and stock...
Resultant Client Settings
Recently I was troubleshooting an issue involving Custom Device Settings (CDS) in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MEMCM / MECM / SCCM / ConfigMgr). A computer was performing a hardware (HW) inventory every hour instead of every day. Eventually this issue was...
7 Tips for Mobile Device Management
Thank you to everyone who attended the recent MVP Cloud Roadshow which was organized by the Ottawa Windows Server User Group (OWSUG). I had a great time talking about the 7 tips I recommend for mobile device management (MDM) with Exchange Connector, Intune (hybrid)...
Why is My Prompt in SSRS Not Working?
I found the oddest problem while trying to troubleshoot why an SSRS report was not working. Basically, the problem centered on a prompt in SSRS; in some cases the prompt worked and in others it didn’t. I asked myself, “What gives?” Take the following report as an...
How to Use RegKeyToMof
For two upcoming articles, I wanted to leverage my existing RegKeyToMof article and add a video (at the end) to it to show How to Use RegKeyToMof. Then I noticed that I had two articles on the subject. This articles that the best of those two posts and combines them...
How to Use RegKeyToMof
For two upcoming articles, I wanted to leverage my existing RegKeyToMof article and add a video (at the end) to it to show How to Use RegKeyToMof. Then I noticed that I had two articles on the subject. This articles that the best of those two posts and combines them...
How to Fix the SSRS Error – Definition of this Report is Not Valid
Leonard and I talk about SSRS and Power BI reporting all of the time. We even publish weekly tips and tricks about reporting on the Ask Garth and distribute a monthly newsletter full of tips. By the way, if you are not signed up for the newsletter, you should be! One...
Display a Date in a Text Box
The idea for this blog post was on my list of “things to do” for quite a while. Why? Again, and again, I saw comments such as, “My date is in the wrong format,” and, “I just want the short date, I don’t need the time.” There are numerous ways to solve these problems,...