Trials

This blog hopes to share some of the solutions I land on in the course of my work as Developer and previously as a Systems Administrator.

My primary focus will not be tutorials or best practice, just short and simple posts of the form “error message -> solution -> reflection”.

Recent posts

Trial #43: Paging OData with PowerShell

1 minute read

Problem: If you want to explore or utilise an OData API in PowerShell without any extra dependencies it is quite easy using just Invoke-WebRequest to acquire...

Trial #18: Installing PowerShell 5.1

2 minute read

Problem: PowerShell 5.1 is available. To standardise the version of PowerShell on the network to the level of newer Server 2016 and Windows 10 machines I wan...

Trial #14: Netsh for Windows Network Problems

less than 1 minute read

Problem: You have a network adapter that is not working. You’ve tried everything you can think of under change adapter settings - No unwanted IP address, Pro...

Trial #12: Enable Wake on a Windows Client

1 minute read

Problem: I found a lot of posts suggesting to enable WOL from a windows GUI and maybe others offering a registry modification. I had no luck with either on o...

Trial #8: Lego Mindstorm & WeDo

2 minute read

Problem Create a Silent Installer for Mindstorm EV3 Edu & WeDo. These packages seem to contain development platforms, drivers and configuration upload u...

Trial #6: Relative Paths in Scripts

1 minute read

Problem: I want to put a batch file in with a load of installation media on a server share, access it from a UNC path, and have it install a list of programs...

Trial #5: Packaging Sibelius 7.1 Installer

1 minute read

Problem The Sibelius installer doesn’t initially seem to have a silent install option. The usual /s & /q switches have no effect. There is also no supp...

Trial #3: KeyShot

less than 1 minute read

Problem: KeyShot is installed as part of ArtCam 2015 R2 at our school. I found that users were being prompted for a license/product activation even though t...

Trial #1: Office 2013 Rearm

2 minute read

Error: Microsoft Office 2013 (or Higher) is failing to activate via KMS on machines built from MDT with Office pre-installed on the wim image.