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The Blog Of Dan

June, 2015

Script To Fix Windows Updates On Remote Machines

I have created a quick script that will fix Windows Update on remote machines. It will need to be saved as a .bat file and requires PSTOOLS. If you have a machine that’s not picking up updates, or not reporting in correctly, or failing to install updates you can use this script. This can be […]

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Brewing My First Beer

I decided today, to finally start brewing my own beer at home. I have never brewed beer before, so it was something of a challenge. I’m not new to brewing, I have done Wines, Cider and English Ginger Beer. The type without hops. Today I started to brew a beer called Woodfordes Wherry. It’s a […]

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Force a Domain-Wide Update of Group Policy

I needed to force a Group Policy Update to around 400 computers, this was to ensure they picked up the new policy that I had rolled out. I wanted to do this easily and without the hassle of exporting a text file list. Here’s how I did it: Download a copy of PSTOOLS and save […]

Windows Time Machine

I found a rather strange bug in windows a few weeks ago. It decided it was apparently a time machine and had gone back in time. As you can see Windows thinks it’s the Year 1629! Now Windows will not allow you to set a date like this. It also reset my language to all […]